Ben Silbermann Quotes
I always describe Facebook and Twitter to some extent as 'them time': it's time about the world and what's outside of you. Pinterest, for a lot of users, is 'me time.' What do I want my future to be? Who am I? What are the things I want to do?
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
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In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
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I always describe Facebook and Twitter to some extent as 'them time': it's time about the world and what's outside of you. Pinterest, for a lot of users, is 'me time.' What do I want my future to be? Who am I? What are the things I want to do?
