Steve Jobs Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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You've got to find what you love.
