Eduardo Saverin Quotes
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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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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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.
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And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
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For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
