Jeff Bezos Quotes
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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I've been a Madden guy since I was little.
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I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
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I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.
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I appreciate the sacrifices my dad made. I went to a great public high school.
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Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
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I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.
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I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
