James Thurber Quotes
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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I always forgive, but I never forget.
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Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
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Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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Perhaps His experiment went spectacularly wrong, sir. Perhaps He's just baffled. Seeing the mess, not knowing how to put it right. Perhaps not wanting to put it right. Perhaps He only had enough power left for one final intervention. So He made it. Whoever He is, whatever He is, I hope he burns in His own Hell.
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Let's go!
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With rue my heart is ladenFor golden friends I had,For many a rose-lipt maidenAnd many a lightfoot lad.By brooks too broad for leapingThe lightfoot boys are laid;The rose-lipt girls are sleepingIn fields where roses fade.
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Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.
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We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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When your family is with you, it is not the hardest part. The hardest part is not giving up! Sometimes you stop and see everything and you do not know if everything that you are doing is going to pay off. If you work hard, it is going to pay off. But, you will not know until it actually pays off! It is easy to say: "I am not doing this anymore. It's not working!" But, there is a time that you invested so long and so much, that giving up is not an option! You need to keep on going and believe that persistence definitely pays off.
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Watching the ball is always a good starting point.
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But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.
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All right, have it your way - you heard a seal bark!
