Lisa Marie Presley Quotes
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.
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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.
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I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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I'm a lot of work.
