Max McKeown Quotes

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

Max McKeown

Recitation: by Male by Female

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DetailsGrowBetterTryingEarly

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.

John Britton

LifeMy LifeStrangersEarlyPlace

I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.

Jesse Andrews

Growing UpGrowingNothingWayUp

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

Jenny Lawson

GodJobOrganizationWritingTherapy

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

Amy Klobuchar

DoorBookPresidentNextNext Door

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Tony Benn

AgeOld AgePeopleAppreciateOld

I cannot stand authority.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

StandAuthorityCannot

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenGodYouI CanSeeMust

Now everybody's sampling.

Missy Elliott

NowSamplingEverybody

What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models.

Louis Navellier

TogetherMomentumWallSometimes

I don't do impressions.

Don Rickles

Impressions

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

Debra Granik

LivePennyResourcesRoomDifferent

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

Aloe Blacc

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