Craig Newmark Quotes
Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Women just love to shop.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
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When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
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It's not beyond me to take my kids to see a good popcorn movie that's a roller coaster ride.
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As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
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Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.
