Brenda Laurel Quotes
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new.
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Inaudible music may seem an odd notion, even a foolishly Romantic one-although it is partly the Romantic prejudice in favor of sensuous experience that makes it seem odd. Still, there are details of music which cannot be heard but only imagined, and even certain aspects of musical form which cannot be realized in sound even by the imagination.
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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
