Clive Sinclair Quotes
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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I'm not super into sports.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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I've done some good work and some not-good work.
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I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.
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In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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(on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.
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One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."
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I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
