Jeremy Stoppelman Quotes
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
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I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
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In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.
