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 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'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 never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
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Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.
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I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that.
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I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!
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At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.
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People always like things that seem exotic.
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What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
