James Dyson Quotes
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
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As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.
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Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
