Steve Jobs Quotes
There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
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This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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That love of movies is very much alive in me.
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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
