Calvin Harris (Adam Richard Wiles) Quotes

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

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• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

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• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

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• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

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• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

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• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

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• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

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• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

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• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

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• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

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• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  

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• If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

  

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• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

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• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

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• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

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• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

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• We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

  

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• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

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• I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.

  

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• The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

  

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• I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

  

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• We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

  

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• Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

  

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• From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

  

  Calvin Harris
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