Billy Mays Quotes
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I believe in my music.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.
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Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
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I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.
