Ben Silbermann Quotes
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
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Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
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I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.
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I always just want to move along to the next step.
