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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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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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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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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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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In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
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I made mistakes in every trial.
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I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.
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In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.
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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.
