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"I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out."
"It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy."
"I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live."
"If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!"
"Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored"
"I don't get the animosity when someone tells a joke that you don't like. Whereas if someone made a dish that you don't like if you went to a restaurant, you would either try another dish or you just don't go back to that restaurant. But you don't say like, "I did not like the hamburger here. This restaurant should be shut down. It should be banned from making hamburgers. No one else should have these hamburgers." And everyone else is like, "No, you wouldn't do that.""
"Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits."
"I think you come to watch baseball, and if you're a true fan, then you enjoy watching baseball. MLB tries to change this and change that, speed up the games, but baseball's baseball. You can't change it. It's America's pastime. It's the greatest game on earth. I don't really want to change it that much."
"I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers."
"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."
"I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can."
"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."
"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
"I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine."
"I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply."
"Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are..."
"It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives."
"Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved."
"Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either."
"We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing."
