Ada Lovelace Quotes
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.
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You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.
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I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
