Jerry Yang Quotes
My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
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Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
