Jeff Hawkins Quotes
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.
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My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
