Jerry Yang Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
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14. Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on the mind.
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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
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…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.
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This film was pivotal in my life, not so much because it was my first successful effort as a producer and director, but because Hitler was so fascinated by this film that he insisted I make a documentary about the Party rally in Nuremberg. The result was Triumph of the Will.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.
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A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.
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Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.
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I'm a Stanford kid through and through.
