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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

Lion Behind Leave Employment
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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Immortality Imagine Gone Kind
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Many Detractors Unsurprisingly Still
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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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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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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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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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Winners Time Work Relish
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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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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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Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

Able Achieve Front Try
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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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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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Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Trap Dogmatic Result Thinking
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The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Important Decision Things Make
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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.
Life Broad Smart Discover
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It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

Take Make Hardwork Simple
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

First Years Life Habits
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Marketing is about values. It’s a complicated and noisy world, and we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Marketing Values Complicated World
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Innovate Mistake Admit Quick
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Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Technology Nothing Important Faith
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It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Technology Married Liberal Art
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Death Life Best Single
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You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Something Trust Gut Destiny
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We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Hire People Make Things
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Mandate Productivity Provide Tools
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Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We’ll find the mistakes. We’ll fix them.

Mistake Good Decision Along
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You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Never Meeting Telephone Idea
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Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Someday New Long Gradual
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The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Broad Understand Human Experience
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In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.

Life Many Things Choose
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People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

People Rely Marketing Research
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Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Shake Erroneous Notion Embrace
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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design Fundamental Soul Human
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