Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes
I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.
