Larry Ellison Quotes
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Values are more important than money.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Love just happens, you know.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
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The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
