Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano.
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Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
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I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.
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Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.
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I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.
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I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.
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Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.
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Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled-he did not fall- Impaled him on her fiercest stakes- He neutralized them all.She stung him, sapped his firm advance, But, when her worst was done, And he, unmoved, regarded her, Acknowledged him a man.
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A 'just war' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.
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Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.
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Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
