Dan Pink Quotes
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me.
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I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.
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We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
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People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
