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Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

Basically Dying Feel Fortunate
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

Because I Can Lennon McCartney
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I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

Actually Car Electric Fully
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

Catchy Here However Just
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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Battery Cell Cells Challenge
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I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Flow Flowers Grow Home
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Business Business People Engineers People
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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

Able Between Carry Earth
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Dollars Done Half Land
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In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

Being Consciousness Enables End
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Actually Building Cost First
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When everyone touches the ball, it gives you energy and life on defense.

Ball Defense Energy Everyone
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

All-Around Although Around Funny
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

About Better Constantly Could
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That's what I'm a big believer in, giving everyone touches and energy on both ends of the floor.

Believer Big Big Believer Both
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Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Arriving Chained Chains Free
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

About Advice Best Better
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When we're able to get stops, get the ball off the glass and run, you never know who's going to get the ball. Everyone takes off, runs to their spots, and the ball just finds the open man.

Able Ball Everyone Finds
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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

Asia Establishing Europe Factories
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Anything Around Could Dome
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Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

Cheap Example First First One
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Between Differences Disneyland Five
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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Civilization Exciting Future Inspiring
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There is no place on or off the court for language that disrespects anyone's sexual orientation. That is not who I am or what I believe, and I will strive every day to be a better person.

Am Anyone Believe Better
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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Atmosphere Before Carbon Carbon Dioxide
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Child Chose Could Denied
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Better Coming Enjoy Forward
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I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.

America Been City Competing
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I might be out of the league if I didn't have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.

Coach Guy League Like
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You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.

Back Check End Front
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I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.

Always Am Ask Because
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Every night, I go out there, and I try to compete and win.
Compete Every Every Night Go
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I play for myself, my family, and the fans.

Family Fans Myself Play
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I think I stand up more often than I should on defense. I've got to be solid and continue to get better.

Better Continue Defense Get
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Active Car Extension Natural
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I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

Act Come Each Extra
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When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.

Advice Around Guys Had
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A leader can't pick and choose when he wants to lead.

Choose He Lead Leader
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I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.

Anything Believed Bought Day
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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.

About Doing Fathers Holes
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Accessible Almost Anyone Difference
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Case Code Difficult DNA
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Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.

Between Both Career Child
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Big Billion Design Efficiency
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Ambition Become Davis Day
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The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.

Care Child Child Care Day
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What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answered Authority Clarity Dr
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

Age Beats Created Digital
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Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.

Bit Boss Colleagues Connection
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