John Doerr Quotes
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.
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Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
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I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'
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We all know about blogs and how big they are.
