Eric Schmidt Quotes
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.

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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
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When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
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In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.