Steve Jobs Quotes
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
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I love Costco.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
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We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
