Adrian Goldsworthy Quotes
It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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Artists need to express.
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I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
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See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.
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I'm a human entropy producer.
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I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.
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Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.
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When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.
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As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'
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It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
