Fred Wilson Quotes
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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Silence is also conversation.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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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.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.
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'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.'
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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
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Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.
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I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
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Games are the most social of all things on the web.
