Jeff Bezos Quotes
We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
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In my heart she's my kind of girl.
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The funniest thing is that now I know what reverse spam is. You know you get spam from people saying, 'Can you invest in this or that?' People are now e-mailing me saying, 'Oh my God, can I invest in your company?' It's a reverse solicitation of money.
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I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.
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Corot spoiled the 'étude' study we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
