Fred Wilson Quotes
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.
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Honesty is the axis on which leadership spins.
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When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
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It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
