John Battelle Quotes
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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I launched NARS with 12 shades of lipsticks, and many, many launches later, I'm still most proud of our lipsticks.
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For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.
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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.
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As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.
