Deborah Jowitt Quotes
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
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CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
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Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
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It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.
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There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
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The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.
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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
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The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
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Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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I shake my booty all the time! It's the best workout!
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Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
