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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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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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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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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I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.
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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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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.
