Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something – I worked in HR at the time – they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
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You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.
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Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.
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But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
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The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.
