Jason Calacanis Quotes

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • America
  • Happened

• I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea - the caffeine - will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That's a new tip.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Help
  • Eyes
  • Green

• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Fly

• No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Same
  • Wealth

• Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Coffee

• The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Beauty
  • Very
  • Outside

• I write slowly.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Write
  • I Write
  • Slowly

• I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Back
  • Republican

• Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul
  • Stop

• For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Technology
  • Moral

• As Blake said, there is no competition between true poets.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • True
  • Competition

• I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Disney

• The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Support

• The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.

  

  Christian Scott
  • People

• I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  

  Arna Bontemps

• More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism, is to live on borrowed time.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Time
  • Live
  • Humanity

• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Rules
  • White House
  • Spokesman

• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Story
  • Problems

• I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Music
  • Job

• I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

  

  Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
  • Thinking
  • Records
  • Representation

• Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

  

  Jason Calacanis