Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.
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It is a well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
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I'm not one of those typical receivers who's like a robot in the slot or outside.
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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
