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• I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

  Patti Davis

  Book, Self, People

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• The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

  Jeff Bezos

  Leadership, Book, Technology

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• Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.

  Walter Reisch

  Men, Sky, Years

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• Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

  Lei Jun

  Apples, Google, Looks

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• I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.

  Bryan Cranston

  Moon, Done, Care

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• In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.

  William Monahan

  Book, Sleep, Ipads

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.

  Miranda July

  Inspiration, House, Risk

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild.

  Zoe Helene

  Ayahuasca, Two, Plant

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• Beyond the mythology, Wonder Woman gets to play with several dichotomies. It's Amazon culture versus man's world; ancient mythological times versus the contemporary world; and, of course, all the male and female issues.

  Bruce Timm

  Men, Play, Issues

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

  Jill Soloway

  Half, Littles, Film

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.

  David Foreman

  Rip, Heart, Fire

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• The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.

  Gerry Lopez

  Holy Grail, Watches, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Self, Culture, Facts

  "I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions - No Profits, The Book Controversies, The Phone Flop - And He Showed Why Amazon Is Such A Huge Success". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2014.

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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.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Records, Letters

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• I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.

  Patti Hansen

  Girl, My Boyfriend, Call Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Nicholson Baker

  Site, Banner, Kindles

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

  John Katzman

  Technology, Market Leaders, Quality

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• When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It's time you go figure it out!

  Hal Elrod

  Dream, Book, Self

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 19, 2011

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• Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August.

  Jeff Bezos

  Winning, August, New Baby

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• Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.

  Jeff Bezos

  Book, Technology, Giving

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• 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

  Jeff Bezos

  Unique, Lasts, Months

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

  George Packer

  Bookstores, Seems

  "Cheap Words" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

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• Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.

  Michael Pollan

  Impact, America, Meat

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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