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'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 whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't. That permission is your birthright, hot stuff; grab it!
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
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I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
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A bubble that goes up is just one that could have crashed but did not.
