Vint Cerf Quotes
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I'm cranky.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.
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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.
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I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
