Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I can gather, the original mystery religions are still, largely, as the name suggests, mysterious. But they are associated with intoxication, fertility and resurrection.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.
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I learned from McDonald's that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn't superior, it might not matter.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
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I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I can gather, the original mystery religions are still, largely, as the name suggests, mysterious. But they are associated with intoxication, fertility and resurrection.
