Trip Hawkins Quotes
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.
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The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
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One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
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I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.
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We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
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Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.
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There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.
