Douglas Engelbart Quotes
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.Douglas Engelbart
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
J. K. Simmons -
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
Valerie Plame -
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk -
The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
Patricia Riggen
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
Zhang Xin -
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
Ian Hecox -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori -
I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
Irvine Welsh
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
Sam Smith -
Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
Baby Face Willette -
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
Warren Zevon -
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Samantha Shannon -
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster -
If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!
Zach LaVine
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Christian Dior -
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Michael Connelly -
I always wear high heels.
Emily Procter -
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
Emma Thompson -
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Douglas Engelbart