John Doerr Quotes
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
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'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.
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Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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I date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.
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Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
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The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
