Clive Sinclair Quotes
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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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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I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.
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In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
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And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.
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People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
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You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
