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People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing.
People Incentive Invest Succeed
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Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

Trying Kill Different Cold
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Subdued Winter Grip Harder
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

System Process Discipline Company
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Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Universal Respected Genres Universal
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn’t make it less true.

Simplicity Ultimate Slogan True
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Group Ground Broken Stopped
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As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Sorry Missing Analog Playback
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A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it’s a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it’s a meritocracy.

People Think Business America
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Done Get Anticipation Life
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Concept Transmission Automatic Drive
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Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
Cold Severe Humans Crafty
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Shooting Paid Set Worth
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My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.
Job Executive Team Successor
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

Mayor Hot Mess Term
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Hours Life Slow Down
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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Feel Sad Anger Plight
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When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

Material Own Dilutes Mediocre
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The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It’s not a speculative market. It’s a very, very large market. It’s been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Category Music Speculate Market
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If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?

Slavery Happen Right Appear
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We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

Operate System Everything Simplify
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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Incredible Engine Close Exprience
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Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.

Revolution Product Change Fortunate
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Point Independent Real View
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

Great Business Never Team
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Killins American Cool When
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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

You Must Stick Your
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Courage Keep Working Relationship
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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

Care Solution Produce Results
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Identity Born Being Matter
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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Personal Success Important Ingredients
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Work Something Care Push
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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Understand Seeing You Believe
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Communicate Higher Practical Level
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Life Movie Eyes Through
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Remember Important Encounter Choice
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Conversations Distractions Unwanted Gravitate
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Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

Focus Say Yes No
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

Radically Living Results Law
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Springs Need Desire Energy
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America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Killed Attack Years Kurds
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If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Define Problem Solution Correct
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Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

Everything Well Thing Do
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Customers don’t measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

Customer Measure Try Deliver
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When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

Frisk Tactic Incitement White
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

Independent Music Good Path
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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

Inspiring Classmate Name Medicating
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Innovation Leader Follower Distinguish
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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

Have Don't Unconditional Sure
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You’re already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Naked Already Follow Heart
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