Steve Jobs Quotes
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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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.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.
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A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
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There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
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Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
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I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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Even the most careless people have a sort of aversion to signing things which they have never considered.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
