Jason Silva Quotes
By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.
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It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.
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A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
