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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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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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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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
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There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition.
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The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
