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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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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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Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
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Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.
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Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.
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We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
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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.
