Mark Pincus Quotes
I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
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In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.
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In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.
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Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.
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Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.
