Ivar Giaever Quotes
If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
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I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
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The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
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'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
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My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
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Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.
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Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be 'informavores,' epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world.
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With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
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I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Acceloph coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
