Walt Mossberg Quotes

Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

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• Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

  

  Laraine Day
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• For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

  

  Dan Webster
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• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
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• In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

  

  Maggie Carey
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• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
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• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

  

  Queen Victoria
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• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

  

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• Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

  

  Anderson Cooper
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• I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

  

  Marie Antoinette
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• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
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• I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Camera

• Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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