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Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

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The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.

Jessa Gamble

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I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Jensen Ackles

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I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

Andy Kindler

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I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Rufus Wainwright

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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

Mika

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I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet someone, you can see their race - it's right there on their face - and I feel like it's interesting.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

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I would absolutely love to do a revival of 'Bury the Dead' by Irwin Shaw on Broadway, but it would have to be Joe Calarco's version that we did Off-Broadway at The Transport Group in 2008. It was just one of those amazing shows that didn't run long enough and not nearly enough people got a chance to see.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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If I had to return to Valencia, I would not rule that out.

David Silva

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There are a lot of opportunities to do a lot of great, wonderful things, and if you say yes to them all, you will not sleep or breathe or eat.

Chris Carmack

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In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?

Anne Hutchinson

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When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

Sergio Ermotti

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