A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.


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SEBASTIAN ARCELUS
It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get r...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why y...
SEBASTIAN COE
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced again...
SEBASTIAN COE
It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we ...
SEBASTIAN COE
I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student populati...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 day...
SEBASTIAN COE
I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody ...
SEBASTIAN COE
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
SEBASTIAN BACH
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him,...
SEBASTIAN COE
Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE...
SEBASTIAN COE
The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
JOHN SEBASTIAN
Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don'...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
SEBASTIAN BACH
I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the m...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
SEBASTIAN BACH
Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
SEBASTIAN BACH
When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the firs...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL
I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool -...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL
[Overhearing this, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, r...
SEBASTIAN COE
During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally...
SEBASTIAN COE
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE
I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don'...
SEBASTIAN ROCHE
Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled,...
SEBASTIAN COE
I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock cl...
SEBASTIAN BACH
A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to ...
SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO
If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. ...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poetic...
SEBASTIAN BARRY
I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affo...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalis...
SEBASTIAN BACH
I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in ...
SEBASTIAN BARRY
Hardware price cuts are necessary not only to drive demand at the end of a console cycle, but also t...
COLIN SEBASTIAN
You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get t...
SEBASTIAN STAN
I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
SEBASTIAN PINERA
I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, h...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, w...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admi...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr...
SEBASTIAN KOCH
Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN
You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambit...
SEBASTIAN COE
For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be...
SEBASTIAN KOCH