Daniel S. Greenberg Quotes
The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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I was just another girl.
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I think a few pictures at a time.
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During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.
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I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.
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The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.
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I've always been drawn to all kinds of music - to me, it's all the same. There's different arrangements and slightly different ways of writing, but if it's a good song, it's a good song - you can dress it up any way you like.
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My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
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The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.
