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 am attracted to dumb people.
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These Peerless thump their chests in salute to me. The monsters. They go with the wind, chasing power. But they don't realize power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust. And trust is what has kept me alive. Trust in my friends, and their trust in me.
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When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.
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The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.
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An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.
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I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
