Alexis Ohanian Quotes
Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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I love algebra. Love it.
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'
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I didn't come to Washington to be part of the problem.
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The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
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Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.
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Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
