Katie Aselton Quotes
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I work very hard at my game.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
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I say no wealth is worth my life.
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Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.
