John Doerr Quotes

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

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• It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Enjoy

• One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • School
  • Gay
  • Idea

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Justice
  • First
  • Portfolio

• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Words
  • Know
  • Successful

• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Career
  • Respect

• I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Healthy

• I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • Phone

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• Together, the Jenner sisters have left their mark on the jewelry and fashion accessories industry, first with The Kendall & Kylie Collection at PacSun in 2012, the Metal Haven jewelry collection in 2013, and a line of shoes and handbags for Steve Madden in 2014.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Together
  • Fashion
  • Shoes

• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • May
  • Dog

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • School
  • History
  • Always

• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Stage

• It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

  

  James Stewart
  • People
  • World
  • Friend

• A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

  

  Peter Camejo
  • Different
  • Party
  • Green

• In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Elephant

• Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Test

• Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Learning
  • Design

• Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

  

  John Doerr
  • Opportunity
  • Green