Anton du Beke Quotes
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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We all do stupid things.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers!
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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When I was eight years old, I asked my mum, 'Mum, can I do two jobs?' And she was like, 'Absolutely!' 'Cause I'd like to act for 15 years and then direct for 15 years.'
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What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
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In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.
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Problems have solutions.
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France is a very attractive place: the health care system, for example.
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Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.
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If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.
