Jason Calacanis Quotes
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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.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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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.
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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.
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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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.
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
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I write slowly.
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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.
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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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As Blake said, there is no competition between true poets.
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When a fellow says, 'It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing,' it's th' money.
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I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
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I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
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And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.
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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
