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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We are our children's first teachers.
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Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
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What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
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We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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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.'
