David Means Quotes
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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To me, America is just another market.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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Every drop in the ocean counts.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.
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I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
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Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...
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Youth, large, lusty, loving-Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
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A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.
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Not just me, in fact, my entire family is a devout follower of Lord Hanuman. It's an annual affair where we all celebrate Hanuman Jayanti with a big puja at home, and all the relatives join us in the puja.
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The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.
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A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?
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Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.
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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.
