All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're probably the most interesting person we know.
I actually don't like saying 'lead character,' which is an interesting thing. If you say there's a lead, then there has to be someone to follow.
The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.
What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.
I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.
You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.
I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.
When you're introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, 'We could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?'
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
