James Dyson Quotes
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
