Vaclav Havel Quotes
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
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The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
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One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
