Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Quotes
Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.
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Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.
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Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'
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You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
