Hasso Plattner Quotes
I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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The one-sided funding creates one-sided images that reinforce the press defining as progress an examination of only women’s issues. Thus, a quarter century’s-worth of studies showing domestic violence against men to be more than equal to domestic violence against women receive so little publicity as to barely make a dent on the public’s consciousness.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.
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A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
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Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.
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You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
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I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
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I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
