Fred Wilson Quotes
I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.
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Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.
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I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
