Barack Obama Quotes
I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.
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I don't care about the underground, even if that's where I'm currently residing sonically.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
