Hans Rosling Quotes
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
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Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
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One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.
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I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
