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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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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Cricket was my reason for living.
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When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a new writer, they're gonna take a huge chunk of your publishing. That's just the way the business is. I'm not complaining.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful.
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At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious.
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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.
