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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Anyone can look beautiful.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
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When you're given an 'SI' cover, and you take advantage of it, you can conquer the world. Look at Chrissy Teigen. Look at Tyra Banks. Look at Kathy Ireland.
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I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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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.
