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I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

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• Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • People
  • Think
  • Famous

• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Government
  • Purpose
  • Worst

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Learn
  • Model

• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Parents
  • Voice
  • Gift

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Man
  • Never

• I would love do a guest spot on 'Castle' because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • World
  • War
  • Running

• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • American
  • Career
  • Style

• Looking forward, we see that it is the youth of today who hold the key to tomorrow. And we can help unlock it.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Help
  • Today
  • Looking Forward

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • America
  • Jazz

• My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Game

• I started to 'write' even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw - horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

• If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • God

• It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • People
  • Nature

• I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Helping

• Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Study
  • Training
  • Needs

• Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Great
  • Literature

• I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

  

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