Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
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I always felt an outsider.
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
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I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
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The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.
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I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.
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I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.
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'She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.' So must we all.
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He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
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That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
