General quotes
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That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Understanding is a two-way street.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.
We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
My musicians are my friends.
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Let's have some new cliches.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
