Mark Pincus Quotes
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I'm an emotional person.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
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It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.
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I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
