Vinod Khosla Quotes
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Writing 'The Spirit' is really fun.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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I like the architecture of lingerie.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
