Kevin Plank Quotes
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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War is over if you want it.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I don't have many friends.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
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I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.
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Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
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As we move into an era in which personal devices are seen as proxies for public needs, we run the risk that already-existing inequities will be further entrenched. Thus, with every big data set, we need to ask which people are excluded. Which places are less visible? What happens if you live in the shadow of big data sets?
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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
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I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.
