Steve Howe (Stephen James Howe) Quotes
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
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I am not the king of the Internet. Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Grishin, Durov are its kings. And I'm an Internet's merchant and its fan.
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Voice is 10 times that of the access business.
