Bill Gurley Quotes
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.
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George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and deep understanding of people. He illuminates things and people I've never thought about - and I've dedicated my life to the study of people and their idiosyncrasies. He is light years ahead.
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It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry policy.
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I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
