Hamdi Ulukaya Quotes
For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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History's a resource.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
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There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
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Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player
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The ideal of the rugged individual opening up the American West is still applied as an essential truth to ten million citizens living in the small area of New York City, as if ten million bulls should and could be squeezed into a china shop.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
