George Perez Quotes
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
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I'm not a negative person.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
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Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.
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Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
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No one will be hurt if I don't come to conventions.
