Jon McGregor Quotes
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
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Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.
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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
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I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.
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Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.
