Andy Grove Quotes
I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Fashion is one big family.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
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The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
