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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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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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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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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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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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.
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Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
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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.
