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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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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.
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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.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.
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In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.
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I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.
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My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
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I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.
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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.
