Startups should be – if you graph their financial performance, it should be what’s called a J curve. You start out at zero. you’re not making any money; you’re not losing any money. Chamath Palihapitiya Read Quote
Our nation’s oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children – black children, in particular – in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal. Jonathan Kozol Read Quote
Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It’s just not gonna happen. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. Garrett Hardin Read Quote
I’m not fake, and I don’t want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It’s just who I am. Lauren Alaina Read Quote
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I’m really free of worrying about what I look like, because it’s out of my shaky hands. I don’t control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? Michael J. Fox Read Quote
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it’s judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still. Hisham Matar Read Quote
