Michael Moritz Quotes
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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I just want to be like other people that are normal.
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I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!
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I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.
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When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
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The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
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All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
