Steve Jobs Quotes
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
Colson Whitehead -
America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.
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One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.
