Nick D'Aloisio Quotes
My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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I'm just a small guy.
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Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.
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There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.
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So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.
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For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.
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Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.
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My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.
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The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.
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If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
