Giles Duley Quotes

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.

Giles Duley

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I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

Jean Dujardin

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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

John Roberts

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I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.

Amanda Lindhout

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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Steve Harvey

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Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.

Steven Levy

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We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

Tom Hodgkinson

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It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Jonah Lomu

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Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There's massive structural advantages to the player who's smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers - the party that understands best the behavior of riders.

Chris Sacca

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I will never not take anyone's phone call.

Bonnie Hammer

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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Aristotle

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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Wim Wenders

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