Reid Hoffman Quotes
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
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I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.
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You need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career.
