Didier Sornette Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I want to win football games.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
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Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
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A bubble that goes up is just one that could have crashed but did not.
