Mitch Kapor Quotes

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

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• When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Money
  • America
  • Wall

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • House

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Political

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Human
  • Movies
  • Bold

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Women
  • Think
  • Movement

• I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Customers
  • Competitive
  • CEO

• Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Discrimination
  • Agenda

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • College
  • Best
  • Chance

• I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Good
  • God
  • Live

• Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • War
  • Government
  • Island

• The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. Linda Ronstadt

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Money
  • Government
  • Recession

• The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

  

  Ann Lewin-Benham
  • Child
  • Ability
  • Foundation

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Government
  • Foundation
  • Significant