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.'Walter Isaacson
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West -
When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
Hannah Simone -
You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
Larry King -
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.
Natalie Imbruglia -
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson -
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.
Nancy Lublin
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
Kapil Sibal -
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
I am myself of a mixed background.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
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.'
Faith Evans
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Carl Lewis -
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube -
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
Karl Malone -
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley -
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Garet Garrett
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume -
I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
Karl Lagerfeld -
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
Gabrielle Union -
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Aubrey Plaza is absolutely amazing.
Jeff Baena -
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.'
Walter Isaacson