Adrian Bejan Quotes
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
Quotes to Explore
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
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Never dip lower than you can dip.
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I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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Now all the bums is wondering where I be's at -if you ain't a barbie it's none of your freaking beeswax!!!
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I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
