Kenny Rogers Quotes
You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.
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Islam means peace.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
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You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.
