John Gates Quotes
Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of 'Microsoft Money' and Intuit's 'Quicken.' Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting - too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.
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I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.
