Jeff Bezos Quotes
Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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I will open an era of grand national unity.
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There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
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Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
