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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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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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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Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.
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'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.
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Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.
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The Bay Area is probably better prepared than most urban areas for a natural disaster. But it's not prepared enough.
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Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
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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.
