Abigail Washburn Quotes
In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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There is more to life than show business.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
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Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
