Reid Hoffman Quotes
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.
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Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!
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Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
