Adam Draper Quotes
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
