Jawed Karim Quotes
It wasn't like I wanted to be the next Marc Andreessen, but it would be cool to be in the same place.
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.
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It wasn't like I wanted to be the next Marc Andreessen, but it would be cool to be in the same place.
