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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There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
