Biz Stone Quotes
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.Biz Stone
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.
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Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything around you - every opportunity is shut. You don't have anyone showing you how to rise above, you don't have any resources, and everyone around you is losing that battle too, then yeah, you want something that you have control over that makes you feel like you're running your brain for a minute.
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Even as the United States has risen to become the predominant international power, however, conflict has persisted over the nature of American society itself and what its role in the world should be.
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It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
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