George Kaiser Quotes
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.George Kaiser
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
Taylor Swift -
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson -
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
Saint Augustine -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
Uma Thurman -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles -
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry -
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
Omar Bongo -
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
Bat for Lashes
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
Barry Marshall -
That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Ed O'Neill -
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
Yuna -
We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
Aaron Swartz -
Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.
Poppy Delevingne -
If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
Bryan Cranston
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On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.
Joe Carnahan -
The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.
Iris Murdoch -
I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.
Bonnie McKee -
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
Oprah Winfrey -
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso -
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.
George Kaiser