Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
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I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
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It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
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Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen.
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I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.
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People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
