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• Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.

  Amy Webb

  Dating, Email, Four

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• Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.

  Amy Webb

  Fun, Adventure, Optimistic

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• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  Daniel Pfeiffer

  Team, Media, White

  "Interview: White House’s Dan Pfeiffer on How Twitter Pressured Congress to Act on Debt Ceiling Bill". Interview with Shira Lazar, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Writing, People, Idiot

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.

  Kerry King

  School, House, Lockers

  "Kerry King of Slayer". Interview with Leonard Pierce, music.avclub.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

  Ansel Elgort

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• As individuals, it's a responsibility to be cautious about the things we DO put out there. And taking the time to be mindful of what we're sharing. And always coming from a place of integrity. But also sharing positive things. Whether it be online, or just to someone walking down the street - just passing on positive energy.

  Lexi Ainsworth

  Integrity, Responsibility, Passing On

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• I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gps, Years

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• I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

  Larry Wall

  People, Appreciate, Would Be

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly.

  Caitlin Moran

  Drunk, Three, Internet

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

  John Agar

  Believe, Thinking, Online Learning

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• The Internet changes everything. People are online meeting boyfriends and girlfriends, you don't have to be out drinking and drugging to find somebody nowadays.

  Larry Tee

  Girlfriend, Drinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

  Keith Rabois

  Mean, Editors, Red

  "How To Start A Startup". Y Combinator’s CS183B Stanford Class. Lecture 14: How to Operate,

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• Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

  Kamala Harris

  Abuse, Needs, Aspiration

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

  Lilly Singh

  People, Statistics, Faces

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Taken, Speaking Up, Silver

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What you see online isn't real. How many likes you get on Instagram doesn't have any bearing on how good of a person you are, how good your heart is. It's all for fun; it shouldn't affect you so deeply.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Fun, Real, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up.

  Reagan Gomez-Preston

  Creating, Giving, Roles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Government, Study, Dissent

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• I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Crazy, Book, Selling

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". "The Academy of Achievement" Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• We're living in post-nuance online times.

  Jon Ronson

  Nuance, Posts

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.

  Bruce Willis

  Kids, Google, Genius

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.

  David Silverman

  Media, Growth, Dollars

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• I'd work on my game online and at casinos, build my bankroll, find good games, and try to put myself in a position to keep winning and earn a steady income.

  Phil Ivey

  Winning, Games, Trying

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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