Avinash Dixit Quotes
You might think that having more options is always a good thing. But thinking strategically, you can often do better by cutting off options.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
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In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.
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All our words and acts are passing in review before God.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
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I could see myself doing a cooking show.
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I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.
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I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
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I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.
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I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
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There is no God! This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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You might think that having more options is always a good thing. But thinking strategically, you can often do better by cutting off options.
