Future (Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn) Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I will run against anybody.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
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My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
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1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.
