Steve Jobs Quotes
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
