Edward M. Lerner Quotes
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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Shredder is about as evil as it gets. He is a man fueled by jealousy and rage. At the same time, he doesn't micromanage, so his gang is free to do what they want.
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I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
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When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.
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Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
