Larry Ellison Quotes
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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People say I am the king of painful shoes.
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Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.