Anita Borg Quotes
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
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History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
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Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.
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This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.
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We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
