Billy Connolly Quotes
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
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Pure sensism leads inevitably to universal doubt; if reality is in the end reducible to sensible appearance, then, since this is in a state of perpetual flux and self-contradiction, no kind of certitude will any longer be possible. Truth is necessary and immutable; but in the sensible order nothing necessary or immutable is to be found; therefore sensible things will never yield us any truth.
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When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums.
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A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
