Koren Zailckas Quotes
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
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I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
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The very shadows seem to listen.
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I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.
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Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
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Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.
