Falco (Johann Hölzel) Quotes
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
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Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.
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Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.
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It's sapiens to be homo.
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I want to fire the whole lot. Instantly. Out, out. No 'District' commands, no golden bowlers, nothing. Out … If I could, I'd do what Stalin did to Tukhachevsky.
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
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Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.
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Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children's Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes up most of a zookeeper's day.
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Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
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As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
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A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.
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History is the memory of things said and done.
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I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
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As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.
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Now it's our turn to kick some tail!
