Dan Schulman Quotes
I've come to recognize that social purpose must be embedded into the core DNA of a company. The questions 'Why do we exist as a company?' and 'How do we make a difference?' need to have the same answer.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.
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I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.
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I've come to recognize that social purpose must be embedded into the core DNA of a company. The questions 'Why do we exist as a company?' and 'How do we make a difference?' need to have the same answer.
