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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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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You can't judge the people that you play anyway; you leave that for somebody else to do.
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You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.
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People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.
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I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
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If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
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Architecture is politics.
