Jason Calacanis Quotes
America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
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The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
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Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then you are against democracy. If you are against Christianity, then you are against God. If you are against trying a can of Old Dr. Quack's Cancer Salve, then you are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die.
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America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
