Steve Jobs Quotes
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
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That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
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I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'
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I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
