Brandon Webb Quotes
It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
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My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.
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It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.
