Nir Hod Quotes
For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.
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Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
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I've got no problem with drone strikes.
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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
