Vinod Khosla Quotes
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.
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I was 23 and saw my face on the side of the big T4 bus at V Festival and almost fainted.
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If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
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Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
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Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
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Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.
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I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.
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I'm scared of needles.
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I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!
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I went to Bruges for a weekend away from London. I was supposed to be meeting a girl there the next day. It was a tentative arrangement. From the moment I saw the town, I thought, 'This place is just so cinematic, so gorgeous.' Every corner seemed to offer a new image.
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I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
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I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.
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I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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We need foreign skills to stay competitive.
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
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When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.
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The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.
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How would you compete against yourself?
