Jonah Peretti Quotes
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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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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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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It's every little girl's dream to go onto the World Cup.
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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
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There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
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It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
