Steve Jobs Quotes
So Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
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I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.
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It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
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I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
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So Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.
