Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes
It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
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When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
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Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
