John Doerr Quotes
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.
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The Acropolis – the spaces between the columns – the depth of flutings to touch – the breadth, weight and volume – the magnificence of a single marble bole up-ended -. The passionate warm colour of the marble and all-pervading philosophic proportion and space.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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I wish the world was flat like the old days Then i could travel just by folding a map No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways There'd be no distance that could hold us back
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Since I have possessed a 'Wonderland Stamp Case', Life has been bright and peaceful, and I have used no other. I believe the Queen's laundress uses no other.
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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?
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The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.
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The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
