Oliver DeMille Quotes
Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Most advisers don't realize non-spouse beneficiaries cannot do a rollover.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
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Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
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Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
