Mohnish Pabrai Quotes
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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As for Sisley, I just can't enjoy his work visiting the Paris Impressionism-exhibition of art-dealer M. Petit, May 1887, it is commonplace, forced, disordered; Sisley has a good eye, and his work will certainly charm all those whose artistic sense is not very refined.
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
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We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.
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Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'
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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.
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People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
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When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.
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Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
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I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
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[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
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We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
