Dustin Moskovitz Quotes
The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
