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 know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.
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They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?
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I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.
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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.
