"I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it."

-- James Dyson

#Thinking Quotes #Four Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
“Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.”
“I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.”
“There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.”

Source : "How A Prominent Boehner Critic Sees Congress' Future Without Him". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.
“People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, it [horror movie] just seems a little ridiculous.”
“Iâ€™ve kissed girls before, itâ€™s fun!”
“It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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