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• One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

  Bram Cohen

  Attitude, School, Care

  "Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent". WrongPlanet.net, March 09, 2006.

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• What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

  Bill Shorten

  Teaching, Games, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

  Jon Postel

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "NetWorker" Magazine, Summer 1997.

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• I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Struggle, Reading, Writing

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• Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Girl, Years, Romance

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 45), 1991.

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• You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• When my mind is operating at its peak, it should depress me to think that this is the best I can do, because it's not very good at all. When my mind is operating normally, I should be even more depressed.

  John S. Hall

  Depressing, Thinking, Mind

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

  John Banville

  Half, Letters, Firsts

  "A Day in the Life". New York Review of Books Article, www.nybooks.com. May 26, 2005.

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• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Play, World

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

  Jack Steinberger

  Thinking, People, Progress

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.

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• We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.

  Paul Jewell

  Stars, Player, Class

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• I really rate Paul Scholes, because he hasn't got the high profile of many of the Manchester United players, he doesn't get too much attention, but he is one very good player. He is an intelligent player, he works hard and he scores some great goals. He is not flamboyant and is a quiet lad off the pitch but he is a tremendous asset to Manchester United and to England. He has already got my vote as player of the year.

  Tony Adams

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Player

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• I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• I'm not very good at doing two things at the same time. I've never been good at the walk and bubblegum thing. I've been doing this 16 hours a day. I haven't had a day off. But it's very exciting, too, just to meet all these people doing really fertile stuff. It's sort of where I come from anyway, hanging out with people who believe in something incredible.

  Bjork

  Believe, People, Incredibles

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• Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

  Laura Halldorson

  Lying, Team, Thinking

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• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Ben Stiller

  Appreciation, Grateful, Acceptance

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• If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

  Richard Ingrams

  Lawyer, Settling, Should

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• Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

  Anna Held

  Divorce, Good Friend, Littles

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• What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Criticism

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• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

  Siobhan Davies

  Independent, Years, Choices

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• By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

  James Galway

  Paris, Scales

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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Gone, Want, Reason

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• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Pops, Knows

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• I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Team, Fall

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