Brad Feld Quotes

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Mind
  • Understand
  • Nobody

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Best
  • See
  • Year

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Family

• Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Same
  • Hat

• All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Determination

• The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Christian
  • Religion

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Death
  • Reputation

• When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • War

• For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Baseball
  • Chess
  • Hockey

• Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Women
  • Divorce
  • Rights

• Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • Home
  • Business

• Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence.

  

  John Dryden
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bold

• While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Professional