Jeff Bezos Quotes
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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I love 'Glee.'
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.
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Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
