Irwin M. Jacobs Quotes

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Irwin M. Jacobs

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'Anthems' was a harsh indictment of American foreign policy; the video for the first single featured an American flag engulfed in a pool of oil, imagery which might have been risque in 2002, but seemed unimaginably passe in the last year of Bush's presidency.

Andrew Shaffer

AmericanYearPoolFlagOilFirst

The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.

Andy Garcia

LifeWorkMeRealityMy LifeBring

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.

Mel Robbins

LifeGrowthSoulYourselfHairBody

We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

John Hickenlooper

GoodJobLosingPeopleCareEnough

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

Jeff Baena

AliveDeadAmbiguityZombiesSort

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

Amanda Foreman

HistoryWifeBeginningQueenCake

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Stacey D'Erasmo

FamilyFatherChurchEnoughOff

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

Sue Hubbell

WomenWonderLostSometimesCharm

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

ChildrenPeoplePresentBetterWay

I haven't seen 'The Empire Strikes Back' - I'm not gonna lie.

Tom Holland

LieBackEmpireSeenStrikesGonna

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

FootballStrongRelationshipsSpecial

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

MemoryNeverDialogueTakeNotes

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