Gavin Pretor-Pinney Quotes
Don't be brainwashed by the sun fascists - fair-weather Cumulus have a starring role in the perfect summer's day.

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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.
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When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
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Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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It was in mid-summer 1906. The colors of the flowers attracted me irresistibly and almost sudden I was painting. My first small gardens paintings were born.
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The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
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Don't be brainwashed by the sun fascists - fair-weather Cumulus have a starring role in the perfect summer's day.