Bobby Kotick Quotes
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Seabeck is slow to change.
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Sometimes you have to put back in the community.
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That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.
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We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.
