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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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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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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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
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Ryan and I took everything; though everything tasted the same, we could at least have some variety of colors on our plate.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
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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.
