Walt Mossberg Quotes
Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I often reread books I have written.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I basically raised myself.
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I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
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Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.
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Putting Windows 3.11 on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple horse poop.
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Secondly, what does justice require? In the end, it requires liberty.
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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
