Jim McKelvey Quotes
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
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I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.
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If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
