Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set a time limit for political reforms in Hong Kong. And in four years time, there won't be a strongman to name the General Secretary at the party congress. That means that the various factions will have to develop better rules for naming their leader. But there won't be a timeline for political reform.
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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
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I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
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I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
