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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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 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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'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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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
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I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.
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When I was attorney general, we had the strongest public integrity unit in the country.
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It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
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I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
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What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
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I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
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For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.
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In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.
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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.
