Jonah Peretti Quotes
A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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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.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
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What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
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A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
