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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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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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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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
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Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
