Jay Samit Quotes
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
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I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
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I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
