Steve Jobs Quotes
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I'm not graceful.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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And better had they ne'er been born,Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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I find it impossible to think of 'favorite' poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.
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I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
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As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
