Steve Jobs Quotes
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
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When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
