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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I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.
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We are not the slaves of laziness,
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You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.
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Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.
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So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
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You don't adjust. You just dominate.