Bill Courtney Quotes
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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Man is a tool-making animal.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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I am very proud of being Jewish.
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No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.
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Our next black president, I think, can be more like Muhammad Ali.
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.
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If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
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People spend money on sports, and I just don't do golf, I hate it. But I love sailing and the technology aspect.
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You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.
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Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'
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We going to keep pushing, the release of this report will influence national security and foreign policy.
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So, in early 2019, when the avowedly arch-conservative TV station chain Sinclair Broadcast Group obliged its stations to run a "documentary" on vaccines, claiming to reveal previously hushed-up information on "one of the biggest medical controversies of our time," it knew it was pandering to the paranoia of the members. Among mainstream media, it is a business bias toward controversy and the principal sin of laziness, this direct assault on truth is an anomaly. In social media, it is a business model.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
