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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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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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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Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
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You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
