Steve Case (Stephen McConnell Case) Quotes
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
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The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
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I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch my best and then put the ball in their hands. That way I can make the team by pitching my best.
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Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
