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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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
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When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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Let's define the word, what racist is - 'A person who believes that their race to be superior to another's.' I've never advocated that. And I challenge anyone to tell me one thing that I've said that is racist. Criticism is not racism. Accountability is not racism. And that's what I've tried to say over the years.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
