Walter Isaacson Quotes
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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This is a strange game.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
