Maynard Webb Quotes
I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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I've been racketeered on.
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I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
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A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.
Colson Whitehead -
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.
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Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
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Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.
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I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
