Jason Calacanis Quotes
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
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I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
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So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I learned from my past.
