Balaji Srinivasan Quotes
Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
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I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.
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I need to practice every day to be at my best for winning the third gold at the Rio Olympics.
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The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
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I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
