Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
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In ninth grade, I played wide receiver.
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I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
