Fred Wilson Quotes

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• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • You
  • Parent

• My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Black
  • Clothes

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Name
  • Worth

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Rubbish
  • Israeli

• I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Real
  • Think

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Guy

• You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Movie

• Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Squad

• 'When we inherit stolen wealth in a will, we would live under a stolen future – thereby mortgaging our future. Remember, what comes from God goes to Him. What comes from truth goes to truth. What comes from stealing goes to stealing. What comes from destruction goes to destruction.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Live
  • Truth

• There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Lost

• Nur derjenige kann ein Künstler seyn, welcher eine eigne Religion, eine originelle Ansicht des Unendlichen hat.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Moral
  • Perception

• I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

  

  John Adams
  • Long
  • Democracy

• For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.

  

  Chris Toumazou

• Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Remember
  • Happy

• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Culture

• With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work

• Games are the most social of all things on the web.

  

  Fred Wilson