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Great Quotes by Walter Isaacson
- I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more…
- One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows…
- Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
- Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic…
- The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical…
- Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
- What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.…
- I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a…
- I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery.…
- Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong