Mary Meeker Quotes
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
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My relationship to comics isn't nearly as strong as some people's. Ha! I mean, I grew up with a comic book fanatic. My older brother was, and still is, obsessed. And I was obsessed with the fact that he was obsessed, because I was obsessed with him. But not necessarily with comics themselves.
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I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
