Walt Mossberg Quotes
Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii
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One golden day redeems a weary year
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Often you have to rely on your intuition.
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I think God outdid Himself when He created children.
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Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.
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Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
