Walt Mossberg Quotes

Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

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• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

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• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

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• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  

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• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
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• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

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• Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
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  • Relationship
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• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

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• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
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• My brother is really, really slow.

  

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• I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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  • Hope
  • Start

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.

  

  Keira Knightley
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• When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.

  

  Nate Robinson
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• Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives.

  

  Louisa Hall

• Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Family
  • Google
  • Soviet