Ben Silbermann Quotes
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.Ben Silbermann
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
Ralph Allen -
I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
Natalia Vodianova -
I'm cranky.
Larry David -
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I resent ever being stereotyped.
Laura Dern
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
Taylor Kitsch -
Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
Kate Williams -
I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
Samantha Cameron -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
My normal life is like being on holiday.
Valentino Rossi -
I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
Namie Amuro
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
Dan Webster -
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
Walt Mossberg -
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
Jack Ma
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
Paracelsus -
Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
Parvesh Cheena -
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
Plato -
I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.
Leo Burnett -
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
Kathy Griffin -
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.
Ben Silbermann