Jay Samit Quotes
Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in search of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Tens of millions of dollars are available to them for free from partners who not only don't want their equity, they don't even want to be paid back.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I love to fly so much.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Is n’t God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?
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I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in search of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Tens of millions of dollars are available to them for free from partners who not only don't want their equity, they don't even want to be paid back.
