Douglas Adams Quotes
It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
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Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.'
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It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.
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If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.
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Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.
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It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.
