Usama Fayyad Quotes

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

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• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

  

  J. P. Morgan
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• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
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• Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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• Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

  

  Carly Schroeder
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• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
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• A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

  

  Allan Sherman
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• I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
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• I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

  

  Kristin Hersh
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• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

  

  Usama Fayyad
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