Jay Samit Quotes
Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.
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I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
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Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
