Ken Olsen Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am a Zionist.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
