Jeff Bezos Quotes
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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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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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
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Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
