Brian Acton Quotes
The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I don't feel closeted.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.
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People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.
