John Young Quotes
We're encouraging them to bring healthy snacks, but when a parent comes up with a tray of sweets, I'm not going to turn them away. I don't want to be the cupcake killer.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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I'm interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I'm also interested in drones, Bitcoin, and 3D printing.
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I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
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We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
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We're encouraging them to bring healthy snacks, but when a parent comes up with a tray of sweets, I'm not going to turn them away. I don't want to be the cupcake killer.
