Yaron Brook Quotes
It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.
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It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door, it's back to being 'Mom.'
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.
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It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest.
