James Dyson Quotes
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I got a big mouth.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
