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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'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 sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
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Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.
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Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.
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But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.
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Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.
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There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.
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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.
