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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.

Package Theater Create Story
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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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There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

Law Believe Protect Sworn
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.

Technology Create Value Century
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Intuition Powerful Intellect Thing
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Quality Important Quantity Home
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You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.

Competition Better Different Look
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We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.

Believe Passion World Better
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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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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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Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Course Connect Impossible Look
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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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Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.

Recruit Needles Haystack Enough
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Stumble Follow Curious Intuition
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Shame Steal Great Ideas
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Hungry Stay Foolish Wish
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You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Something Trust Gut Destiny
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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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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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