Jeff Bezos Quotes
It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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I enjoy my life.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
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I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.
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There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.
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Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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All adventure is now reactionary.
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
