Jay Samit Quotes
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.
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All art is at once surface and symbol.
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
