Jeff Bezos Quotes

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• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Law
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• Don't confuse honours with achievement.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Achievement
  • Honours

• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • God
  • Family

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Important
  • Power
  • Change

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Live
  • Home
  • Band

• After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Great
  • American
  • Movie

• I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Moving
  • Cool

• I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • World

• What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Different
  • Power
  • Cancer

• Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Rock
  • Brilliant
  • Jimmy Page

• Obviously, the bulk of my Nike shares have been set up in a trust.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Up
  • Trust

• My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Path

• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  

  Francis Bacon

• Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • People
  • Job

• I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

  

  Eva Green
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Wear

• The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like 'Good boy,' I'd immediately correct them. 'No. Good girl.'

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Words

• You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not...

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Business