"I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs."

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

Mary Meeker

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“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”
“Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.”
“In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.
“We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.”
“Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.”

Source : "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 2: "The Pact", October 10, 2012.
“A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.”
“The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.”
“As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of dead trees arise. I guess it's that each one seems to have a story of its own, representing many years of living through everything that nature could throw at them.”

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