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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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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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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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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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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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
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I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
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What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.
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When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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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.
