Bernard von NotHaus Quotes
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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I love people and I love to be around people.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Kids increase people's risk of eviction.
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I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.
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Most people are cowards.
