Alexis Ohanian Quotes
I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.
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I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
