Steve Jobs Quotes

Overnight success stories take a long time.

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• When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Friends
  • Common
  • Fast

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Never
  • Find

• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Skin
  • Routines
  • Moisture

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Education
  • College
  • California

• In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Democracy

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Live
  • Man
  • Watch

• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Being
  • Production
  • Proteins

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smart
  • Awesome
  • Questions

• I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Done
  • Crying

• Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Life
  • Eyes

• I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Respect

• I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Happy
  • Success

• Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Success

• You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Mean
  • Stories
  • Something

• There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • School
  • War

• It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Die
  • Passion
  • Sex

• Overnight success stories take a long time.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Success
  • Stories