Dennis Crowley Quotes
Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
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When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.
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Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
