Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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I didn't expect people would embrace 'Ang Probinsyano' the way they did during its first year.
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I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.
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People tell me they use my song 'Coming Home' at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it's cool when you really get to connect with all different people.
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After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.
