Ben Silbermann Quotes
There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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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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I love bayou life.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
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Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.
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There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.
