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If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.