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“Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.”
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“My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.”
Source : William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition
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“I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.”
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“On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.”
Source : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.
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“ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.”
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“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body”
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“You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.”
Source : "Virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro Takes Ukulele Seriously". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Jennifer Ludden, www.npr.org. January 1, 2011.