James Dyson Quotes
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.
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Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
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Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
