Charles Babbage Quotes
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.Charles Babbage
Quotes to Explore
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
Dana Brunetti -
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel -
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
Vera Wang -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
Sam Wyly
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet -
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
Rachel Sklar -
Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
Natasha Little -
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
Zoe Kazan -
Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
Gary Bettman -
In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
Cara Delevingne
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
Jackie Mason -
I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
Victor Oladipo -
I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
Adam Mansbach -
In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.
Q-Tip -
You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
L.A. Reid -
While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
Patch Adams
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People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.
Lucy Punch -
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Larry Niven -
Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentot altera
Plautus -
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
Nate Silver -
Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.
Alex Mack -
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Charles Babbage