Steve Jobs Quotes
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Quotes to Explore
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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My kids learned to be independent.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
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I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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The Old and New Testaments are the stick of Judah. You recollect that the tribe of Judah tarried in Jerusalem and the Lord blessed Judah, and the result was the writings of the Old and New Testaments. But where is the stick of Joseph? Can you tell where it is? Yes. It was the children of Joseph who came across the waters to this continent, and this land was filled with people, and the Book of Mormon or the stick of Joseph contains their writings, and they are in the hands of Ephraim
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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
