Charlie Kaufman Quotes

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

Charlie Kaufman

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1958

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BusinessPeopleWorldYouCreate

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Robert Sternberg

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To develop or not to develop, that is the question.

Jeff Rich

QuestionDevelop

Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.

John Tiffany

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Establishing a 'livable wage' floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.

Stephanie Coontz

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I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

Sonny Perdue

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When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.

Trish Goff

MoneyFeetMaking MoneyPlaceFirst

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

Rita Moreno

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I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

LP

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YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.

Jay Samit

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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Jared Diamond

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My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

Jasmine Guinness

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There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Clay Shirky

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