Mitch Kapor Quotes
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.
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Architecture is politics.
