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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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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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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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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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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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
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When you're 17, touring is fun.
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I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't particularly lofty. I wanted a good job with a good company.
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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.
