John Battelle Quotes
Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
Quotes to Explore
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
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I have not written about being a Negro at such length because I do not expect that to be my only subject, but only because it was the gate I had to unlock before I could hope to write about anything else.
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I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.
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Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
