Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.
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One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
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Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.
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I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do.
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If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
