John Doerr Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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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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As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.
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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
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We all know about blogs and how big they are.
