Taavet Hinrikus Quotes

If we think about how long Google spent searching - I think they came around in '98? And, OK, Gmail came in 2004, but it was literally built by one engineer as a 20%-time project. It was probably 10 years before Google started diversifying.

Taavet Hinrikus

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  • Nationality: estonian
  • Birth: 1981

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The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

Jerry Hall

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I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

John Corbett

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'Toast of London' is a must-watch. Matt Berry's off-the-wall humour is slightly surreal and a little bit deviant. That's why I also love 'House of Fools.'

Maxine Peake

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I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.

John Madden

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With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.

Rudolf Steiner

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I love 'Top Chef.'

Monica Raymund

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I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

Judi Dench

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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

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I love my brother. But I'm not a yo-yo. He can't just keep spinning me in and out of his life.

Tyka Nelson

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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Noam Chomsky

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At home I drive an old Land Rover.

Richard Hammond

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