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Paul Allen Quotes

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018

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Worth Others Serve Well Rather Our

History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.

Hope History Country Person Vote

I'm not really shy.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Robert Schumann

Good Money I Am Window You Forget

I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family - you can't concentrate on your work.

Work Family You Artist Want Company

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

World Digital Boundaries Individual

I always say a song is like a ship. Once it has been made, you let it sail. Let the waves take it in the direction it wants to.

Sail Song Waves Direction Ship You

When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.

Live Job Me Thought Worry Nothing

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Green You Predict Tractor Big Going

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

Life Good Great Optimism Think Same

I never had a single thing handed to me. I had to fight for everything I wanted, like my education.

Education Fight Me Never Everything

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

Pauline Phillips

Sister Speak Born True Iowa Twin

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

Nature Book Internet Down News Said

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