Walter Isaacson Quotes
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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This is a strange game.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
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With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
