Dave McClure Quotes

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Good
  • You
  • Beat

• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Brother
  • Year
  • Filmmaker

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Happens

• I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Matter
  • Just
  • Lip Gloss

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Hate
  • Doctors
  • Medication

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • American
  • Best
  • Car

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Think
  • Hand

• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Movie
  • Angel
  • Bike

• Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Different
  • Emotions
  • Capable

• As for Sisley, I just can't enjoy his work visiting the Paris Impressionism-exhibition of art-dealer M. Petit, May 1887, it is commonplace, forced, disordered; Sisley has a good eye, and his work will certainly charm all those whose artistic sense is not very refined.

  

  Alfred Sisley
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Truth
  • Voice
  • Listened

• I want to invest in a functional product that people are using.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People