Chris Hughes Quotes
You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.
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What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.
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The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.
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In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
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I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.
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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
