Charles Babbage Quotes
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.
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Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
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I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
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Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
