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Herbert Hoover

"The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity."

- Herbert Hoover

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Jacqueline Leo

“One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.”

- Jacqueline Leo

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Alex Ferguson

“You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.”

- Alex Ferguson

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Eliza Doolittle

“You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.”

- Eliza Doolittle

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Ann Druyan

“Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.”

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Chandler Burr

“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.”

- Chandler Burr

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C. A. R. Hoare

“The best we could do was to send with it a minority report, stating our considered view that, … as a tool for the reliable creation of sophisticated programs, the language was a failure.”

- C. A. R. Hoare

Source/Notes: The Emperor's Old Clothes

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Gemma Jones

“I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.”

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Werner Herzog

“Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix... If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.”

- Werner Herzog

Source/Notes: Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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Clark Kerr

“A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.”

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Vittorio De Sica

“I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”

- Vittorio De Sica

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Matt de la Pena

“When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.”

- Matt de la Pena

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Alexis Bledel

“In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.”

- Alexis Bledel

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Nas

“To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.”

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John Burns

“I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?”

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Artur Rodzinski

“In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.”

- Artur Rodzinski

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Nick DiPaolo

“If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say … the red is positive and the black is negative.”

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Robert F. Engle

“The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.”

- Robert F. Engle

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