Bill Gurley Quotes
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
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The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
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You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
