Jaan Tallinn Quotes
I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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I have a very small public.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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I found myself in too much of a box situation.
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You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward.
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
