Bill Maris Quotes

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Electronic

• I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Work
  • Play
  • Work Hard

• I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Band

• American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Success
  • Desire

• Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Question
  • Brain

• Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Question
  • Quality

• When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Growing

• There's no Hollywood tradition of maybe not telling people that you're gay to protect your future ambitions. The YouTube world is a little unprecedented. I think what people are seeing is that the more true to yourself you are, the more an audience will connect with you.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • People
  • World
  • True

• I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Up
  • Children
  • Lost

• I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Girl

• China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

  

  Arjuna Mahendran
  • Move
  • China
  • Currency

• Either for profit or for political malevolent reasons, people are polluting the otherwise wonderful democratizing agent called the internet, with all kinds of things that are not trustworthy. And people are confused.

  

  Edward Greenspon
  • Internet
  • Confused
  • Reasons

• Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Always

• I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Ideas
  • Artists
  • Writers

• If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

  

  Bill Maris
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