Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
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Amazon
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Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment."
Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk."
Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform"
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"Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature."
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"So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish."
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"The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted."
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""Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup."
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"I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist."
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"There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon."
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"I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one."
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"My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records."
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"Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing."
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"Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want."
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