Fred Wilson Quotes
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
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My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
