Steve Jobs Quotes
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I missed the NFL by an inch. IRS problems... No money coming in, and not that many options left because I signed that stupid no-compete clause with WWE. I had no one to blame but myself.
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Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
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To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
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Writing is a discipline, and you have to stay at it. Inspiration will come.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
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If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.
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If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend. It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff.
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The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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One with the law is a majority.
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When I come home and have a new song I've written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.
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My style is all to myself.
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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
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Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
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Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
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They've had different paths to travel. As they try to create a legacy, I'm hoping they can build off this last month... . Obviously the month of January kind of skewed some things. But that doesn't mean the end of February and March can't change all that.
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If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
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Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.
