Fred Wilson Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
