Brad Stone Quotes
I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I'm very open-minded.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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Fashion should be playful.
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I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
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It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.
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An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn out.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed.
