Sergey Brin Quotes
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
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Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
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The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.
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I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
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We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
