Astro Teller Quotes
If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.
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I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!
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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
