Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Myself
  • Interested

• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Racism
  • Excellence

• There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Happy

• New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Home
  • Young

• Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Age
  • Beauty

• Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

  

  Halsey
  • Nothing
  • Race
  • I Can

• I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Growth
  • Child
  • Poverty

• April is the cruellest month.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • April
  • Month

• With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Doing

• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • Up
  • Family
  • Light

• Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Guy
  • Nice

• I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Great

• Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Country
  • Family
  • May

• We have to be a team that's going to be a little bit grimy, we're going to have to go after every loose ball that we can, we're going to have to be the team that dives on the floor.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Team
  • Ball
  • Floor

• Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Women

• I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

  

  Al Lewis
  • Brain

• When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Life
  • Business
  • Wish

• Simply put, the representation of events in the media does not track their frequency in the world. As sociologist Barry Glassner notes, the murder rate in the United States declined by 20% over the course of the 1990s, yet during that time period the presence of gun violence on American news increased by 600%.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Media
  • Events
  • Sociologist

• If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Team
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