Jay Samit Quotes
Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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To survive is to win.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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It's very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China because our view is, users come to a platform; they really don't care whether it is professional or whether it's a user-generated, or it's premium, you see. They want to come to a big database to be able to find the content they want.
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A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
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The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
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Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
