James Dyson Quotes
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I get depressed at airports.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.
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In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.
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Encouraging the weak and the faint; giving strength and courage to those who have faltered. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )
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I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
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We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
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But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
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I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.
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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
