Jeff Weiner Quotes
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
Quotes to Explore
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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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 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 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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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.
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A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.”
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
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The things that stand out are often the oddities.
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I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
