Fred Wilson Quotes
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
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I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
