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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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
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The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
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Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
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Most people are cowards.
