Steve Jobs Quotes
We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
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I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.
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I am neither a German citizen, nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a 'Jewish faith.' But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.
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We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
