Charles Babbage Quotes
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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My education was very tough.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.
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Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.
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I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
