Elon Musk Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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I did this one scene in an episode of 'General Hospital', and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, 'Woo! This is easy! This is fun!' That was a really cool moment for me.
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Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
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Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
