Ben Silbermann Quotes
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
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The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
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There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
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I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.
