Dee Hock Quotes
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
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People only have so much attention.
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I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
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I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.
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An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
