Adam Lashinsky Quotes
Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
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I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
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'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.
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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.
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Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.
