Jerry Yang Quotes
Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
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When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
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One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
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I'm very interested in foundational narratives.
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I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.
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I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.
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I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.
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I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.
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There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
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I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
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Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
