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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Just close your eyes and enjoy the rollercoaster that is life.
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You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.
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Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing.
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
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Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.
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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.
