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You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.


Ziad K. Abdelnour

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K. ERIC DREXLER And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with,...
K. ERIC DREXLER Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. ERIC DREXLER The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made ...
K. ERIC DREXLER If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build m...
K. ERIC DREXLER I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive critic...
K. ERIC DREXLER But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including...
K. ERIC DREXLER I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that w...
K. ERIC DREXLER In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, w...
K. ERIC DREXLER Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of r...
K. ERIC DREXLER Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our abili...
K. ERIC DREXLER I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't ...
K. D. LANG My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's...
K. D. LANG I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
K. D. LANG Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. Yo...
K. D. LANG My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. LANG I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing th...
K. D. LANG I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have jus...
K. D. LANG I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I alway...
K. D. LANG I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego ...
K. D. LANG If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.
K. D. LANG I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
K. D. LANG Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
K. D. LANG There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
K. D. LANG It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape y...
K. D. LANG I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so...
K. D. LANG I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too...
K. D. LANG When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a...
K. D. LANG I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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