Alexis Ohanian Quotes
Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.
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For me, my mother is everything.
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If you had the height, you controlled the battle.
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Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.
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When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.
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Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.
