Chris Solinsky Quotes
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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War is over if you want it.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
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All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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It's a roller coaster ride.