Arash Ferdowsi Quotes
If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Life is God's art.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
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If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.
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Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.
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If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.
