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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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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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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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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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
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When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.
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I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!
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To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.
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You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.
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The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
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I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
