Aaron Patzer Quotes
After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can't imagine dating someone and seeing what they're doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then.
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I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
