Tom Anderson Quotes

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Tom Anderson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 8, 1970

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

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It's our hope MySpace Comedy will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.

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If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.

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Parents aren't clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don't want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.

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Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

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For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.

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Photography has literally changed my life.

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MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.

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When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

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The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.

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But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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I won't even say who I'm going to vote for. I don't want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.

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I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.

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I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

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Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.

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I can't stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.

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Expensive gear helps for night shots, but I wouldn't recommend beginners overspend on a camera.

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I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.

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The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.

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Bands are going to MySpace because it's free and they don't have to know how to do a Web site.

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