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• We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • World
  • Live
  • Remember

• Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Houses
  • Lands

• Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • School
  • Fool
  • Tools

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Value

• I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Family

• I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Picture

• One should never create tension between one's footwear.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Tension
  • Footwear

• When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Taken

• I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Mainstream
  • Decade
  • Desktop

• You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Faith

• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  

  Petrarch
  • Tears
  • Floods
  • Sighs

• I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Human
  • I Believe
  • Navigation

• On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Screens
  • Desktop

• Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Successful
  • Deal

• We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Bases
  • Desktop
  • Gnome

• We tend to watch a whole show once in a while and then see the beginning of most of the shows. It’s kind of insane the way they start the show, almost at full throttle. And you’re thinking, “How do they get through the rest of the show?”. But it does actually go further up from there, which is crazy.

  

  Aluna Francis
  • Beginning
  • Show
  • Insane

• I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.

  

  Stephen Strasburg
  • Horse
  • Rely
  • Starter

• Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Mankind
  • Responsible
  • Sides

• Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop.

  

  Chris DiBona
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