Andrea Illy Quotes
“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
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The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.
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I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.
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It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.
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I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.
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Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.
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“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”
