Michael Arrington Quotes
The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
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The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.
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I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.
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That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.
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Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'
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If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
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All clothes are worn on the street, but 'streetwear' had once described T-shirt brands and skate-inspired brands, and now it's just a lazy innuendo used to describe clothing made by designers that the establishment deems 'less than.'
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When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
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To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.
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Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
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We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
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When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.
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I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
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The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any 'ism.' When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.
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You only live once, so you got to do as much as you can in the time that you have.
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If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.
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The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.
