Jerry Yang Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
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I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.
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The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.
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The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
