Gary William Flake Quotes
I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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We thought we'd have to look for survivors.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.
