Walter Isaacson Quotes
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
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I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.
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Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
