Balaji Srinivasan Quotes
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
