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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What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.
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I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.
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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.
