Clyde Edgerton Quotes

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

Clyde Edgerton

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But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

John Cena

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Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

Robert Kiyosaki

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When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

Amanda Lindhout

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I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.

Tommy Bond

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There is no formula for winning any show. One just has to be at ease and mentally stable.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

Ronald D. Moore

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And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

Martin Rees

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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Louise Erdrich

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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

Wilson Greatbatch

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There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

Kristian Bush

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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Hesiod

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