Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
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We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.
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Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
