Jerry Yang Quotes
The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
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I gave life, and that is beautiful.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
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The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
