Larry Page Quotes
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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'It's very strange,' said Mr. Dick ... 'that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.'
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I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.
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My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
