Jason Calacanis Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.
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When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.
