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I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. ↗

— Michael Jordan

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We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#best #build #built #could #else

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#am #begin #completely #decide #happens

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #else #had #i #i can

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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