Dave McClure Quotes
I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.
Quotes to Explore
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.
