Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.
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Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.
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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
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Utopia is not one of the options.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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My parents did the whole good-cop/bad-cop thing - Dad was the bad cop, and Mom was the good cop. I remember my father saying, 'I'm his father, not his friend.' That kind of stuck with me.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
