"One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent."
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"If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out."
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"Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come."
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"I try to be as efficient as possible."
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"When I do have choice I try to be very picky about... or shall I say choosey about when I choose. I don't automatically decide that I must be the one to choose or that it's important for me to make every choice in my life."
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"When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers."
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"The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere."
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"I don't know if I approach choice any differently than the sighted people do, but what I am very cognizant of is that choice does have limits and because of that I really try to take advantage of the domains in which I do have choice."
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"If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world."
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"I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS."
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"What Clinton wants is to enforce trade policy, she wants to triple the number of trade enforcement officers, which will really matter in trying to level the playing field with South Korea and China and other countries that don't play it straight."
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"Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters."
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"No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of them, you know, every single one of us, that's what we all face. And so it's made me - that's the one change I've marked in myself - it's made me change in the way I relate to my students. I've become a different teacher in that way."
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"I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness."
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"I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me."
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"What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities."
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"John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude"
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"The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right."
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"One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes we forget that even while the parent is parenting, they're still a growing person. They're still trying to fix themselves. They're still out there not doing everything a hundred percent correctly. I had the best parents I could ever have, but the kinds of things that they were capable of doing, the things that they said and did, were very destructive to my sister, brother, and me. But they're so much more than those things."
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"I'm not trying to prove anything."
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