Sam Yagan Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isn't a joke). Five years. Think about it. (p. 20)
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.
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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.
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I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that it's fair to say there's been a concerted effort to convince people like that young man of something, nobody's quite sure what, but of something.
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
