Adam D'Angelo Quotes

The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.

Adam D'Angelo

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I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.

Andy Cohen

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Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

Maxine Waters

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We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well.

John Lee Hancock

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I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

John Hurt

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It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

Max Holloway

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Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.

Ron Chernow

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I have made mistakes.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it was wrong. It desensitized people to what $700 billion was, which opened the door for a $900 million stimulus, for Obamacare, for all these things. It was wrong. It broke my heart.

Louie Gohmert

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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Chuck Jones

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I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Brandon Flowers

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I have met fantastic men in my life and horrible women. I have also met some amazing women and terrible men. I have seen women who are sexists.

Nithya Menen

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Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.

Kevin McCollum

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