Brad Stone Quotes
Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
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I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.
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I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
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I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.
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I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
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I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
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Music is too important to be left to professionals.
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