George Edmund Street Quotes
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
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I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.
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What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.
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How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
