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.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Imagination

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• 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.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Politics
  • Loved
  • Politicians

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Christmas
  • Gifts

• 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.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Always
  • Young

• 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.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• I was a Girl Scout!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Girl
  • Scout

• 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.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Young
  • Television
  • Conspiracy