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I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.

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• I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
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• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
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• I loved ninjas when I was younger.

  

  Rain
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• A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

  

  A. J. Bowen
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• When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Energy
  • Now
  • Fast

• Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
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• A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Principle
  • Progressive

• Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Myself
  • Never
  • News

• President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Growing
  • Food

• I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

  

  James Brown
  • Kind
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• It's probably one of our biggest concerns, with his groin. It'll probably be later in the week before we get a report on that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Done
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• The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • World
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• Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
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• Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Listening
  • Enemy
  • Honor

• Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

  

  Brad Cohen
  • Build
  • Regardless
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• 'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
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• I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • My Mother
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• I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
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