"Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside."

-- Drew Houston

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“'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.”

Source : "'La Nuit Sera Calme' ('The Night Will Be Calm')". Book by Romain Gary, 1974.
“Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.”

Source : Quoted in Thomas Carlyle, History of the French Revolution (1837)
“There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.”
“The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.”
“A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.”
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press
“When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.”
“I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.”

Source : "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.

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