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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

Entertainment News See Serious
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

Business CNN Grew Half
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Before End Financial Financial Resources
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Almost Been Bull Cow
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

After Cycle Deep Democracy
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It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

About Believing Bin Couple
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I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

Balls Chance Did Get
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I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

After Canned Chrysler Five
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

Before Cities City Could
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I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Back Clothes Days Ironing
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

People Plant Seed Teach
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So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?

Always Buddies Conservative Fun
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age Feeling Matter Years
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Amazon Big Customer First
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Actor Been Boy Career
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

About Actor Any Be Careful
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I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of people who make their living in the beef world. Ranchers, primarily.

About Ads Because Beef
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

Basically Been Done Films
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Advance Affairs Could Days
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Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

Back Conversations Dude Forth
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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I've been working with photography for many years.

Been Many Photography Working
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I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

About Became Involved Old
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I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

About Became Been Enamored
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

Affectionate After Being Close
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Business Change Entering Fantastic
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

American Asian Classes Concepts
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Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Great Spent Leadership Military
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Our viewers are loyal. They've seen Pat and me together for 30 years. It's like Ken and Barbie. How do you break them up?

Barbie Break How Ken
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
After Book I Think Judged
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Basically Buy Got Job
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When I was 23 years old, I had just finished my wrestling career. I was top 12 in the nation in the NCAA. And I was top 12 in the state in California.

California Career Finished Had
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Always Anniversary Before Gave
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I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Love Friends Sometimes Even
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I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Jokes Life Mean My Life
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The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

Afterwards Day Did Doing
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'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

Because Classic Did Everyone
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