- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it's the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues - some are saying 'Oh, these are western values.' But these are really universal values.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I can get a fast track, I'll try to because I can't stand the airport experience. If you can afford priority boarding, then do it. Nobody wants an unpleasant experience before it starts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020