Kathryn Minshew Quotes
I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I get bored easily.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
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I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
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The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.
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What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
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We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.
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I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
