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Steve Jobs Quotes

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011

Topics

Life Failure Fear Death Me Choices

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

Love Music Soul Want Jazz Afraid

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

Fun People Surprise I Can Wrestling

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Children School People College Help

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

Kiss Road You Back Know Rock

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.

Steven Soderbergh

Me Better Director Out Pretty Hire

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

End Someone You Down Own Going

It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.

Life Me Television Detroit Real See

I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.

Control Remember Seeing Play Way

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Time Luck Writing Control Random

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

America Problem You Go Race Over

My two sons are the biggest pigs - always dirty, sweaty, burping and farting.

Dirty Two Always Pigs Sons Sweaty

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

You Down Write Sit Read Much

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