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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It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
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I believe you have to have balance in your life.
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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
