Alistair Cockburn Quotes
Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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I will send a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable as Iran is currently envisioning it.
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Iraq is an unjust war. I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
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If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
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A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.
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When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
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To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.
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Science has no prejudices - though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.
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Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'
