Evan Williams Quotes

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

Evan Williams

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I care about the children of Detroit.

John Engler

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I am a sociologist, God help me.

John O'Neill

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The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.

Megan Smith

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You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

Michael Hastings

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My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.

Jean Reno

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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

Amity Shlaes

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If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

Trevor Dunn

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Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

Ron Perlman

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For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Mohsin Hamid

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The negotiations on the future of the U.K. and the E.U. must be led... in the interest of our citizens.

Miroslav Lajcak

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I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

Dierks Bentley

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Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

Derek Blasberg

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