James Dyson Quotes
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
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There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.
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Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
