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Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.


Daniel Goleman

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ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
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DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
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