Jeff Bezos Quotes
If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
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This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
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When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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We need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis. I mean, we've had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been what's good for Wall Street, but not what's good for Main Street.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
