Elon Musk Quotes

I think we’ve got the risks pretty well characterized. I think we are at least avoiding the mistakes that have been made in the past.

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Change
  • Star

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Food
  • Enough
  • Moment

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Giving
  • Hate

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Universities
  • Rubbish

• I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Teacher
  • Wanted
  • Ballet

• Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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  • Now
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• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Understanding

• What bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Racism

• I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Healthy

• I think we’ve got the risks pretty well characterized. I think we are at least avoiding the mistakes that have been made in the past.

  

  Elon Musk
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  • Past