Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? How hard can it be to change gears and say, 'You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.' (p. 177)
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
