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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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.
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We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.
