Hans Rosling Quotes
The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
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If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
