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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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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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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To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
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Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
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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.
