Dennis Gabor Quotes
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.
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Nothing good ever happens after midnight.
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I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
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The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
