Jeff Bezos Quotes
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
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I'm looking to make history.
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
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I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.
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There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
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I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.
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As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
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By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
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I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
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Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
