Darold Treffert Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.
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"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.
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Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.
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It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.
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Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
