Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I live and die by puns.
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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
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My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am. So I'll just sit and wait for somebody to say, 'Aren't you ... ?' and then go from there.
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'Fifty years,' I hackneyed, 'is a long time.' 'Not when you’re looking back at them,' she said. 'You wonder how they vanished so quickly.'
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Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?…I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.
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And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.
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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.
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It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
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Everyone in London, Wales, and France made the 'Merlin' experience a very, very special one.
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
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I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
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I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to the experiences and hallucinations of deep trance.
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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
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Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
