Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
Adam D'Angelo
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Kanye West
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
A. R. Rahman
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I never lie to my fans.
Becky G
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
Gary Paulsen
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
Orlando Bloom
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
Vijay Sethupathi
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Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.
Jeff Greene
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For me, in my normal life, I'm very all-or-nothing. I'm super comfortable dressed to the nines - full hair and makeup. I love feeling really done up. And I love feeling undone. I love sweatpants and my hair in a topknot. I go with no makeup. Or I have a full look.
Briga Heelan
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My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
Paulina Porizkova
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I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
Freya Stark
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I love playing with words and texture.
Binyavanga Wainaina
