Denis Diderot Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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Mancini was a big part of my life. I sang a lot of his music, and he became a good buddy.
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I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
