Boozoo Chavis Quotes
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
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Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'
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I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!
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Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.
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Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.
