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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I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway
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The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's. The role of women in that space is terrifying, and the idea of retribution is a nightmare.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
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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.'
