James Dyson Quotes
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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If any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need.
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Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?
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Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.
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It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
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The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
