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What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.

~Brian Behlendorf

Topics: Been Being Being Used Gotten Implementation Java Kept Open Open Source Possible Really Source Use Used Widely Widespread

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The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

~Brian Blessed

Topics: Advert Baked Being Bread Day Every Every Day Fire Grew Hear Household Huge Like Magical Oven Programmes Radio Rather Up Very Wonderful

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I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

~Brian Blessed

Topics: Adventure Been Being City Completed Exploration Fighter Going Half Love Moscow Space Space Exploration Spokesman Training View I Love

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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

~Brian Chesky

Topics: After Another Being Day Days Desk Enough Entrepreneurs Even Every Every Day Feeling Getting Getting Old Important Job Like Missed Natural Old Opportunity Relatively Something Start Think Today Up Us Wake Wake Up Would You Young

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I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

~Brian Cox

Topics: About Acting Actor Ambition Because Being Difficult Difficult Times Doing Enjoy Ever Had Hard Later Lots More Now Only Realise Than Thwarted Tied Times Until Up Work You Young Young Actor Younger

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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

~Brian De Palma

Topics: Archetypes Being Dream Dreams Falling Feels Girl Guilty Kind Kinds Know Like Me Noir Operating Our Our Dreams Pursued Recurring See Some Strong Stuff Time Very You

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I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: Being Extraordinary Gene He Jack Jack Nicholson Like Luminous Makes Man Natural Nicholson Ordinary Ordinary Man Personality Problems Situation Star

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No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: About Access American Aristocrat Artist Availability Being Big Big Thing Cast Ever Gave Important Important Part Irish Kind Loss Me Melancholy Pain Part Some Thing Think Who Would I Think

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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Because Being Being Lied To Decided Done Eccentric Explained He How Know Lie Lied Me Recognise Should Teach Thought Uncle Wanted Would Young

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Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Any Being Building Doing Else Fun Good Good Fun Just Merit Nearly Off Quite Something Something Else Soon Sort Start Things Think Up I Think

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