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“The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.”
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“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.”
Source : "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009. 
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“I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.”
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“I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.”
Source : "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.
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“Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.”
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“I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.”
Source : The AD100 Architectural Digest, v. 57 #1, p. 48, January 2000.
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“There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!”
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“When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.”
