Jeff Hawkins Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
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I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
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People sometimes say that about my interiors; they seem to believe that comfortable seating and classic modern design don’t go together. But they do. Their points are the same: to make life work better.
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It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one. - 'Reactionary Prophet', The Atlantic, April 2004
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I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.
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I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
