Kevin Harvey Quotes
When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I have a great office.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
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You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.
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Someone I would love to do a beautiful and glamorous red carpet moment is Lady Gaga.
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No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.
