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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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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Architecture is politics.
