Jim Allchin Quotes
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
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When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
