Michael Aspel Quotes
An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
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Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
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I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.
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An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
