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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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 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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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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Holdouts never go well. Just look at history. It always ends badly. It wouldn't be the best decision. I make a lot of money. I pull up to camp in Rolls-Royces.
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Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you're confronting those issues in a way that's safer for your psyche.
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I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.
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Entry-level jobs are excellent opportunites to educate young women about the realities of the financial world and can prepare them for the next move up within the firm or another area of the financial industry.
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All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
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Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
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You can't give up on your dreams.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.
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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
