Daniel Ek Quotes
I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.
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The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.