Pierre Omidyar Quotes
News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.
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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
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In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
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News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.
