Derek Bailey Quotes
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My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I like being by myself.
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When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
