Jeff Bezos Quotes
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
