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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming

Afraid Become Drink Never
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Courtesy Drink Drove Had
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

Camus Prolific Sceaming Keep
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Records Worth Main Run
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Canadians are often a friendly bunch.

Friend Often Bunch Canadians
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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Learn Rejection Acceptance Life
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I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.

Know Live Bowl Cherries
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

Limited Appreciation Intensed Scope
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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Actually Copy Shrugged Read
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Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes – that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can’t be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

Magnificent Legions Order Extraordinary
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Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

Equlity Favor Marriage Act
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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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Companies must have a noble cause, and it’s the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

Company Noble Cause Leader
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Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

Library School Lunch Spent
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Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

Product Change Once Revolution
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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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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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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

Music Cure What Live
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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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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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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Personal Success Important Ingredients
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