Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.
