Fred Wilson Quotes
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.Fred Wilson
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
R. Kelly -
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent -
My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
Lance Henriksen
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
Aaron Sorkin -
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Eduardo Chillida -
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King -
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb -
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Patrick Demarchelier -
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
Patricia McBride -
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran -
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
Ralph Nader
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell -
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
Philip Yancey -
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?
Paul Krugman -
If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.
David Harewood -
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
Andrew Lincoln -
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
Fred Wilson