Ada Lovelace Quotes
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Bling is good.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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I am sure of one thing: many silent readers and young people full of energy will secretly be grateful to us, will be fired by enthusiasm for this book the Blaue Reiter Almanac and will judge the world in accordance with it.
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I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
