Adam Lashinsky Quotes
The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
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The barrels were on a platform and to keep the platform level someone had shoved a quarter-inch tape box underneath it. I pulled it out. Covered in old beer and sweat and condensation, it was one of the master tapes of Joy Division's debut album, Unknown Pleasures. It made me smile. It was an absolutely perfect metaphor for the Haçienda. Joy Division had held the whole fucking thing up.
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
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The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.
