Dennis Lindley Quotes
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
