Jeff Weiner Quotes
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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There's nothing wrong with being yourself.
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I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
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The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.
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I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
