Boris Beizer Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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Religion is a huge part of me; I'm a practicing Muslim. I'm pretty much open about it if people were to answer questions. At the end of the day, I'm just a normal girl. I have my own beliefs just like everyone else. I have a strong belief in something, but I also love music.
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
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Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.
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I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another.
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As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.
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We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
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If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
