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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.