Amadeo Giannini Quotes
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.
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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.
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I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.
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Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.
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Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
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My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.
