Fred Wilson Quotes
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
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The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.
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Over time, we look forward to introducing new advertising experiences and business experiences on Instagram.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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Humble Inquiry is the skill and the art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.
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Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.
