Clive Thompson Quotes
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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It's a relaxed intensity I've got to live my life in.
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I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That's why it's important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a 'power' breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.
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I've made sure that I've stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.
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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
