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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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
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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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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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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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Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.
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The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
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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.
