Jeff Bezos Quotes
It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today...
Quotes to Explore
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We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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For kids it's natural to be competitive.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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I'd love to time travel.
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That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
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When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.
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Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
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The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.
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The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
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I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
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My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.
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It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.
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It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today...
