Jason Calacanis Quotes
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
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In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
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Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.
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My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.
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Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
