Ben Maddow Quotes
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
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I have my own definition of God, but I believe God is whatever you want Him to be.
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We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.
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The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.
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One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you - on a regular basis.
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One way or another we all work for our vice.
