Jerry Yang Quotes
I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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I don't have proper places to run.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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I love receiving fan mail.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
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Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.
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I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!
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I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
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It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
