Jason Calacanis Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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Just when I'm about to part with my friends is when I realize that I had the best group of friends ever.
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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.
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In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.
