Rumaan Alam Quotes

I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?

Rumaan Alam

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That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Jennifer Egan

CuriousYouFindKnowWayWrite

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

John F. Kerry

AngerPoetryEnergyThinkBetter

Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.

Aneel Bhusri

DaySmallThoughtCloudYouBack

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

Spike Jonze

LoveSuccessI AmLove IsValueOwn

Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

Travis Bradberry

SuccessConfidencePeopleBelieve

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Matisyahu

LifeKnowledgeMy LifeBooksMost

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

Julia Glass

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Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

Joseph Stiglitz

DemocracyFightingViewYoungSay

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Clive Thompson

WorkCollaborationInternetGang

I used to be able to pick out the UFC fans when I was in the airport. Now, it could be anybody.

Chuck Liddell

NowAirportOutFansUsedAble

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Anthony Fauci

GoodSupportResearchJustCertainly

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Suzanne Collins

TimeWarPeopleMovingControlLong

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