Adam D'Angelo Quotes
We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I am basically a private person.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.
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We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.
