Daniel Ek Quotes
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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I really love music but I've always wanted to act.
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Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
