Fred Wilson Quotes
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.Fred Wilson
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
Carla Gugino -
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.
Karl Lagerfeld -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
Yelawolf -
The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
Jack Keane -
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis
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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.
Mahershala Ali -
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
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.
Lana Del Rey -
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
Park Geun-hye -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
Barney Frank -
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.
Walter Kaufmann -
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano -
I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
Marat Safin -
I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
Gavin DeGraw -
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.
Pat Metheny
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Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.
Nicki Minaj -
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld -
We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.
Ashley Olsen -
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler -
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
Ellen Gallagher -
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
Fred Wilson