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time-zones enzymes vitamins
When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes. Carla Gugino
time-zones ideas obscurity
This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity. Isaac Asimov
time-zones brain president
The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain. Christopher Buckley
time-zones littles tailors
You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there’s a little thing outside called the sun...yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn’t be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien) Sherrilyn Kenyon
time-zones people sensitive
I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place. Marla Gibbs
time-zones challenges pilots
I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot. Miranda Kerr
time-zones behinds zone
I'm always one time zone behind myself. Eric Bana
ideas listen people quickly stronger tough
On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film. Denis Villeneuve
ideas sticks brilliant
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. Cecil Rhodes
ideas needs sometimes
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin. Cecelia Ahern
ideas jars cookies
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed. Carrie Fisher
ideas persons my-own
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. Carl Rogers
ideas return becoming
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.
ideas fiction firsts
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. Carl Sagan
ideas littles merit
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
ideas numbers world
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
obscurity
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.
obscurity language obscenity
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon
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The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Cory Doctorow
obscurity human-life brevity
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life Protagoras
obscurity poverty life-is
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. Jim Carrey
obscurity fame notoriety
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. Neil Gaiman
obscurity wells security
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. Larry Wall
obscurity problem piracy
Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is. Seth Godin
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. Ovid