Jason Epstein Quotes
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
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This is a state of graceThis is the worthwhile fightLove is a ruthless gameUnless you play it good and right
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There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.
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It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.
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The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on.
