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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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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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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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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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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One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.
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I don't think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful. I tend not to be that persuasive on that side of the aisle.
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Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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.
