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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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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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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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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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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If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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It really is the height of irresponsibility, ... There seems to be a coordinated effort to confuse everything.
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When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
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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.
