Reid Hoffman Quotes
An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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In child rearing environment is equally essential with heredity.
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How can you franchise hospitality?
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it's very energetic. It's wonderful.
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An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
