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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I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.
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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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April is the cruellest month.
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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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There's something so free about being a fan and being enthusiastic about stuff - you attract all the other people who are also loving and enthusiastic when you're sending out signals of love. When you start to communicate cynicism and hatred, it leads you down a completely different path.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.
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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
