Alan Kay Quotes
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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My choice of films has never been governed by money. That is perhaps why I don't have a very fancy bank account. I'd rather get respect and creative satisfaction through my work than just earn money.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.
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I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].
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The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
