Barnes Wallis Quotes
You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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Cultural change is the statistical product of the separate behavioral responses of large numbers of human beings who cope as best they can with social existence.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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London is very fashion-forward. Everyone's very stylish, and the designers are great. It's very my style, grungy and feminine - a bit of everything.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
