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.
John Battelle
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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.
Orlando Bloom
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
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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.
T. Boone Pickens
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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.
Walter O'Brien
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
Dana Goodyear
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
Madeleine Albright
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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.
Pat Garrett
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
Oscar de la Renta
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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.
Jack Dangermond
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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.
Walid Jumblatt
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney Frank
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
Daniel Gilbert
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If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
Luca Guadagnino
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne
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The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.
Antonio Machado
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Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
Minor White
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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.
John Battelle
