Capers Jones Quotes
There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.
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No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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We have less nuclear warheads, but the risk of them being used is growing.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
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Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well
