Jon Huntsman, Jr. Quotes
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.
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I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
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After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.
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My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
