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've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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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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The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.
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What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
