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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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'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
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There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.
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The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.
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If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.
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Lo pianto stesso lì pianger non lascia,e 'l duol che truova in su li occhi rintoppo,si volge in entro a far crescer l'ambascia.
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We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.
