David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.
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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
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Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
