Fred Wilson Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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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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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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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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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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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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Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!"
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It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
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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.
