- Fussy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the really amazing things about the Lusitania saga was that, at the time, there existed in the admiralty a super-secret spy entity known as 'Room 40'.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done dumb things.
- Agriculture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.
- Bad Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digital currency is now a misnomer for Bitcoin. It can be used as currency, but it can be used for many things.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing a film and doing a TV show are poles apart. They are two different things, cannot be compared, but I enjoy doing both, as I love what I do.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020