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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I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.
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The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.
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The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
