Wilfred Bion Quotes
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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Human life can be lived like a poem.
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In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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A good leader makes a good follower.
