Al Davis Quotes
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
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A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I really like that idea.
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You don't adjust. You just dominate.
