Caroline Llewellyn Quotes
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
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On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
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Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?
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There is a major difference between theoretical knowledge and experiential knowledge. Academics think they know how the economy should work; successful business owners know how the economy does work. They have been there and done it. Our government should be turning to those who have experiential knowledge when it comes to solving our fiscal problems. They would realize that many of their current policies may sound good but don’t work in the real world and must be abandoned. They would spend less and live within their means. They would be promoting the creation of more entrepreneurs and business owners, instead of hiring more bureaucrats, consulting more academics, and enlisting more lawyers to harass and prosecute the true wealth creators of this nation.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
