Steve Jobs Quotes
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.Steve Jobs
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon -
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
Zach LaVine -
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
Kate Bush -
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
Ice Cube -
People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart -
I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
Maggie Q -
You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
Sam Hunt -
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
Gabourey Sidibe -
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
Yahya Jammeh
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I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
Gail Simmons -
When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
Harmony Korine -
I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
Vince Vaughn -
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
Eddie Izzard -
Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
Garry Shandling -
I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
Om Puri
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I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
Patricia Cornwell -
I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.
John Darnielle -
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.
Alan Davies -
There's a lot involved in going to the bathroom for women.
Leah Remini -
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
David Hockney -
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs