Sergey Brin Quotes
It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I've always been a dreamer.
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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Racing has $25 billion in economic impact, hundreds of thousands of jobs, generates $16 billion in handle, but still does not provide adequate on-track insurance for its most important people.
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I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
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I've never come out and said, 'I hold the most pay-per-view buys.' All I know is what I got paid, and I'm happy.
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Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.
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It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.
