Biz Stone Quotes
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.
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Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.
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There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
Biz Stone
