Larry Ellison Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
