Bill Gurley Quotes
It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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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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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
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If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
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It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
