Adina Porter Quotes

I get a thrill out of looking at my Twitter following and seeing how big it has gotten.

Adina Porter

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I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

John Gutfreund

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All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

Ann Cotton

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Style is all about being comfortable. I don't believe in following a style because it is a trend. I need to be comfortable in my clothes.

Sonam Kapoor

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The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Steven Sinofsky

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We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

Trevor Rabin

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I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.

Monica Ali

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I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

Janice Dickinson

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There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Jann Wenner

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We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

Joschka Fischer

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When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

Diane Greene

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In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we'd love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers could deposit excess energy when they didn't need it and withdraw it when they did need it.

Debra L. Reed

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My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

Bre Pettis

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