Jim McKelvey Quotes
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.Jim McKelvey
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy -
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Damon Galgut -
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker -
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson -
In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
Walt Mossberg
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
Zoe Sugg -
I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
Malik Jackson -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
Gary Calamar -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
Tavi Gevinson
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth -
When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
Irwin Winkler -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
John Maeda -
In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.
Bryan Cranston -
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
John Charles Polanyi -
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost -
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
Jim McKelvey