John Doar Quotes
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
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America rules the world - by force.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.
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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
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Tom Cruise is one of the most wonderful, kind, and generous men that I've ever met.
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One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
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You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.
