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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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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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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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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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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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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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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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
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Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.
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He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'
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My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.
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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.
