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Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.

~Ben Hopkins

Topics: Because Everything Happened Horrible Horrible Things Invincible Never Never Stop People Queer Stop Things Tried Truth Who You

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For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

~Ben Hopkins

Topics: About Act Because Choosing Drag Enjoy Me Perform Political Political Act Things

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I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a teacher.

~Ben Hopkins

Topics: Because Could Family Feel Grow Grow Up Kinds Made Men Might Part Queer Small Somebody Street Teacher Think Up Who You Your I Think

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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Always Because Between Ceos Choice Choices Company Consequences Decisions Difficult Doing Easy Everybody Excuses Faces Fold Get Life Lonely Making Plentiful Popular Right Run Wrong You

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You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: About Because Going Got Lot Make Mistakes Move Next Them Thinking Worry You Your

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Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Anyway Because Breaking Broken Companies Go Honest Layoffs Most Never Point Recover Same Through Trust Where Will You

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Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Always Because Believe Deal Did Even Generation Genius Go Great He Here Him Hip Hip Hop His Hop Kanye Like Musical Oh People Really Said Saying Society Something

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I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Because Bit Books Business Companies Guys How Interested Learn Like Mess Nobody Press Quite Quite A Bit Struggling Successful Talk Thing Think Want Wants Who Whole Write You I Think

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The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: About Any Bad Bad Thing Baked Because Bright Come Company Get Good Good Thing Harder Ideas Lot New New Ideas Old Older Paradigm People Reasons Set Skill Sometimes Starting Them Thing Wrong Wrong Reasons You Young Young People

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Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

~Ben Horowitz

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