James Dyson Quotes
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I am a private human.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.
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My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
