Kevin Kelly Quotes
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.
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Today's ruling by a federal judge who sits in the 9th Circuit is yet another assault on American principles. The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights.
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Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.
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To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
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Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
