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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.' ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened. ↗

— Marvin Isley

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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

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