William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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If I played golf, I'd be on the golf course every day, but I just can't wear those dumb pants.
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I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
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Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.
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Good taste is as tiring as good company.
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He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?” “Blades,” he whispered, “and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold my blade.
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Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
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It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
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I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
