Fred Wilson Quotes
The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
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I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses.
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In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
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You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.
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The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
