Michael Moritz Quotes
There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.Michael Moritz
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian -
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
Maj Sjowall -
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Hale Irwin -
The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
Valerie Plame -
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
Quincy Jones -
If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
Victor Garber
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
T. J. Miller -
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra -
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
Karl Rove -
In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
S. E. Hinton -
The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
Lars Onsager
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
Dan Castellaneta -
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel -
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
Gary Numan -
I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
Kate Winslet -
I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
Haley Joel Osment
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
Abigail Washburn -
Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].
Werner Vogels -
We talked about the talent in the room, the fact that we represent the United States of America, and just making sure they understood how everybody is coming after us. . . . They're all aware of doing whatever it takes.
Buck Martinez -
There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.
Michael Moritz