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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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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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.
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If you could control somebody's attention, what would you do with it?
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I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
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You've got to speak; you've got to be able to articulate the Republican message to the American people and take that fight to the president, but you also have to bridge internally.
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You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.
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Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
