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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It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
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Most people are cowards.
