Brad Feld Quotes
I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I grew up on films.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I do not like violence.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Great artists have no country.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
