Alexandra Kleeman Quotes
Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.
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I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.
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There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
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I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.
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By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.
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Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.
