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Jeff Bezos Quotes

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.

Jeff Bezos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 12, 1964

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Good Time Achievement Value Think

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

Joe Strummer

Home School Parents Me Place Only

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Jill Scott

Music Me Writing Place First Poems

Television has always been our No. 1 competition. But I know firsthand that you can create an experience you can't get on television. I also know that the social experience has an appeal.

Jerry Jones

Experience Competition You Create

I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.

Jenny Slate

Bike Risks Feel Horse Jump Need

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

Melvyn Bragg

Literature Lake Earth Places Been

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig

Food Restaurant You Page Thirty

I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do a three-month run on 'Chicago.' Something like that would be awesome. So, I'm putting it out there.

Rochelle Aytes

Love Chicago Run Awesome Out Would

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Russell Smith

Interesting You Strangers Will See

Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up at five o'clock, six o'clock; it's usually seven-thirty, eight o'clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.

Roustam Tariko

Bird Day I Am World Start Early

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

Michael Robotham

Me Story Confident Feel Australia

If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.

Luis Gutierrez

Support Start Immigration You Latino

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths

Time Moment Ride Society Emotions