Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.
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My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea – we are all in this together.
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During the negotiation process, it's common for misconceptions to occur, since both parties assume what the other person is saying or thinking. This can lead to conflicts or disagreements.
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I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
