Jeff Bezos Quotes
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
Jeff Bezos
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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.
Nate Parker
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta
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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.
J. August Richards
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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.
Talib Kweli
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs
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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.
Maajid Nawaz
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I love 'Glee.'
Cameron Mackintosh
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
Jack Welch
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
Edgar Wright
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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.
Ian Mckellen
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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My objective is to be among the best.
Antoine Griezmann
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What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
Eliphas Levi
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
Jeff Bezos
