Chad Hurley Quotes
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.Chad Hurley
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Honestly, I'd rather hug than shake hands. I don't know where those hands have been!
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Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley
