Charles Babbage Quotes
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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I lost my confidence.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
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I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.
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I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though I've lost whatever Christian faith was drummed into me as a child, I still maintain very good relationship with all the various religions.
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Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
