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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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 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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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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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.
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Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle of the night sobbing, just trying to process what had happened and wanting to find community around being in a lot of grief and having a lot of rage.
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I just want to keep doing good projects with good people.
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Though it lash the shallows that line the beach, Afar from the great sea-deeps,There is never a storm whose might can reach Where the vast leviathan sleeps.Like a mighty thought in a mighty mind In the clear cold depths he swims;Whilst above him the pettiest form of his kind With a dash o'er the surface skims.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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A bubble that goes up is just one that could have crashed but did not.
