Trip Hawkins Quotes
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
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So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
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Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.
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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
