Jack Kilby Quotes
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I love Canada. The natural environment here is so inspiring. It never ceases to make me feel grounded and calm and to help put things in perspective. And I love Canadians. A lot.
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A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.
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I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.
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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
