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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I think Hillary Clinton's probably going to be indicted, is my guess. So anything she can do to deflect from her email scandal and other scandals which are coming down is probably good for her.
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I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.
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I wanted to reach out to basically like my community and to show what’s going on around the world that I try to be conscious of. I caught myself being really really focused on the wrong ideas of other peoples comments.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
