- People
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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
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.
- Coordinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
- Aesthetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020