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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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.
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As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
