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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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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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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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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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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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.
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Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
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I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
