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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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
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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.
