Brad Feld Quotes
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
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The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I'm bonkers about juicing. I got into it when I lived in L.A. - I'd juice three times a day.
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The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
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At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.
