Hasso Plattner Quotes
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.
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Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
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Americans are not afraid of the future.
