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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I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
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When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.
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Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.
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No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
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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.
