Jeff Bezos Quotes
I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.
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I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.
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I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
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I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
