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Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

~Andrew Mason

Topics: Being Both Company Generally Nature Operational People Technology Tend Underestimate Dna

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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Allow Altogether Association Behind Being Conversations Dismantle Does Doors Else Family Good Laureate Miss Nothing Open Open Doors Poet Poetry Role Royal Royal Family Say Should Thing Those Tradition Trick Way Weight Who Would You

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When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: About Allowed Attention Back Being Hard Look Looked Made Me Paying Stop Then Very Way World Write You

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Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Back Been Being Between Birds Came Day Evening Far Few Had Laureate Like Me Much Poems Pretty Stopped Tree

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I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Afford Barely Beautiful Beautiful Things Because Being Buying Eating Enough Enough Money Finance Life Like Make Money Out Paintings Pension Scheme Surrounded Things I Can

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When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

~Andrew Nikiforuk

Topics: Being Between Dollars Governments Instead Kind Link Representation Revenue Run Taxation Taxed Taxes Then You

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You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Being Britain Filled Find Greater People Pride Proud Really Stupidity Than Thick Who You

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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: Being Contact Defined Fear Horror Human Human Being Me Thing Who

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I remember seeing 'Falsettos' on the Tonys in '92 and being like, 'What the hell was that show?'

~Andrew Rannells

Topics: Being Hell Like Remember Seeing Show I Remember

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Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

~Andrew Rannells

Topics: Been Being Conversation Even Gay Life Majority Midwest Much My Life Really Spent Though Where

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