Balaji S. Srinivasan Quotes

It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
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• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• I studied Morse code.

  

  Adam Driver
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• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
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• It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Country
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• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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  • Beatles
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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
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• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • Really
  • Bond

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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  • Music
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• I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
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• I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Day
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• ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Working
  • Talk
  • Hospitals

• I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
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• And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

  

  Chris Meledandri

• It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Couple

• My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
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  • Band

• It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
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  • Road
  • Walk