Ivan Allen Quotes
I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on me.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.
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I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
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Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
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It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
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I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on me.
