Mary Meeker Quotes
I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.
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My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'
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I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.
