Steve Ballmer (Steven Anthony Ballmer) Quotes
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
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I sort of feel like 'Mad Men' fans are like sci-fi fans because they are very, very devoted, and they're very loyal and very excited about it.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.
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'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
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The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.
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Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
