Esther M. Friesner Quotes
If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters
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...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka.
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So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.
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Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.
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We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.
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The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.
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If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?
