Adam D'Angelo Quotes
I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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I cover media people the way they cover politicians.
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I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
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I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
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When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
