Andrea Hirata Quotes
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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The world is too violent right now.
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All religions have been made by men.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
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For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.
