Michael Moritz Quotes
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
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Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
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I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.
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I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field
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I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
