Bethany McLean Quotes
Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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The Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ is a true Christian in the very best sense of the word. She is a woman of faith who trusts God and is confident and fearless.
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I also begin where he began, and follow wither the dream led him. Meanwhile, I can but entreat you to remember it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
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Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
