Hasso Plattner Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.
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Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
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I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.
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Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.
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I can't control my frustration.
