Major Owens Quotes
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.
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I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
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I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
