"A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay."

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Source : "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

Mary Meeker

#Ebay Quotes #Car Quotes #People Quotes

“To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.
“Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.”
“My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard”
“I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.”
“I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.”
“To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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