Dee Hock Quotes
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'
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If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
