"We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Advice Quotes #Born Quotes

“We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.”
“I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.”
“Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?”
“This is the theoryâ€¦ that anything that is artâ€¦ is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and itâ€™s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else itâ€™s irritating.”
“I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.”

Source : "Celebrity endorsements that are science fiction trashed in annual list" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.
“When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.”

Source : "Uber riders to be able to hail self-driving cars for first time" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2016.
“We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.”

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