Larry Ellison Quotes
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
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I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
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My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
