Vinod Khosla Quotes
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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 just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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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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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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I value my privacy a lot.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'
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Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
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I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
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I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.
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Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
