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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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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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.
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The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.
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I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
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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.'
