Fred Wilson Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I don't feel closeted.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
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Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
