James Lovelock Quotes
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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War is over if you want it.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
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Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
