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 lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.
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I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"
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I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
