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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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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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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I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'
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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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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
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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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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?
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The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.
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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
