Al Jarreau Quotes
We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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I want to go down in history.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
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Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
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Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
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Strong convictions precede great actions.
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I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
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Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!
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We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
