Dave McClure Quotes
Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
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I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.
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Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.
