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Larry Page Quotes

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1973

Topics

Work Think Grandfather Protect Head

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

Memory Me Back Young Boy Years

We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.

Change Responsibility Climate Change

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.

Live Song Doing Easy Play Difficult

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Work Hard Work Depression Compassion

Imagine you are walking in China, and all the billboards are in English. And at the restaurants, as the people are talking to you, there are live subtitles. You don't even realize you are in a computer; it's just happening.

Live People Walking Talking You

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Tired Waiting Never Band Sound Just

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Great Influences Barney Fife

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

Others Emotional Things Teenagers

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

Good Mother Home Girl Children Lie

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

Me Think Acting Young Being Only

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

Work Mother Feel Need Her Like

I'm such a romantic at heart.

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