Georges Laraque Quotes
Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
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In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.
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Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.
