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.
Adam Dell -
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
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.
Larry the Cable Guy -
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
Aaron Swartz -
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.
Iris Chang -
If I played golf, I'd be on the golf course every day, but I just can't wear those dumb pants.
Elvis Duran
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I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
David Horsey -
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.
Kim Campbell -
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
Liz Phair -
Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.
Jim Goad -
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Francis Picabia -
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.
Nalini Singh
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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.
William Cowper -
If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
Morten Harket A-ha -
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
Olivier Theyskens -
We must conquer war or war will conquer us.
Ely Culbertson -
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
William Makepeace Thackeray