W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
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America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
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I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.
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Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
