Walter Isaacson Quotes
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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Everything I say is true.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
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Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
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We are the adult power in the world. It is because of the United States, our action or inaction, that there will be a resolution here.
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'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
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Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
