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'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.
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The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.
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maybe that’s all love really is-friendship plus sex-and we get confused thinking that it should be more, and because we want it to be more, we start believing that it really is more.
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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.
