Jim Goetz Quotes

At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

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• I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Worst

• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Night
  • Light
  • Birth

• Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Just
  • Everyone

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Movie
  • Television
  • Three

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Obstacle

• I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Emotions
  • Forces
  • Reflects

• Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Moving
  • Liar
  • Deception

• There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Path
  • Short

• The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Experience

• At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

  

  Jim Goetz
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