Sandra Bullock Quotes
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Quotes to Explore
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't know if I'm brave.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
