At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things. Jonathan Grayer Read Quote
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. Ron Chernow Read Quote
Even in the Pixar and DreamWorks animated movies, there are themes that could be taken into an adult area very easily. ‘Zootopia,’ I think, is the closest so far; I love that movie because they really did push the envelope as far as the ideas and writing of an animated film for families. Conrad Vernon Read Quote
I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don’t carry guns, we carry cookies. Gabriel Iglesias Read Quote
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau Read Quote
When you scale up your business there will invariably be small groups of vested interests unwilling to see the new ground reality. Ritesh Agarwal Read Quote
One of the most beautiful sights is when the rim of the Earth is bright on one side, and you see this defined line of the atmosphere. You see how close and thin it is. We’ve got to be careful. We’ve got to take care of this planet. Peggy Whitson Read Quote
Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires. Diane Hendricks Read Quote
