Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes
I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I like to travel by myself.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
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I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
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Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.
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I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.
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I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.
