Adam D'Angelo Quotes
You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I was a tomboy.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
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You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
