Doug Larson Quotes
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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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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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
