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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.