Jack Ma Quotes
When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.
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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
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As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
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If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.
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When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.
