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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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.
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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
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Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
