Steve Case (Stephen McConnell Case) Quotes
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
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I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.
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For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'
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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
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You're going to play good. You're going to play bad. But as long as I stay healthy, I should be happy. Every player should feel the same way.
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Music has always been a part of my life.
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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
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The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were the ones quick to criticize Tim Tebow for bending a knee to pray and thank God on the field.
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I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.
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I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
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I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.
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We should pray to be reconciled with God in everything so we can get grace to react in a godly way. Then you will be content with the way God does things for you in your life. If you are satisfied, you are satisfied, regardless of whether you are healthy, free, and active, or are limited in some way.
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I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.
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Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
