John Charles Polanyi Quotes
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
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The videos that I post every day are averaging 7 million views per day. And I post one of those a day. I spend an average of $200 a day to make that. The Disney show that I'm on, they spend $2 million over the course of five days to create one episode that gets 1.7 million views.
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What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.
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American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
