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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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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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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Over the years, I've learned, focus on the job at hand, and opportunities will open after.
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If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
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Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.
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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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I live in Chicago but own some property up in Wisconsin.
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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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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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I almost never listen to the radio.
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I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.
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He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.
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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.
