Larry Ellison Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.
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Overall the first round-robin was a success. The winners of Pool B will have their hands full next week facing rested Korea and Japan teams.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
