Samuel J. Palmisano Quotes
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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Tech never comes back the same.
