Burgess Owens Quotes
In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.
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Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.
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It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.
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In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.
