Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes
I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.

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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I am healthy and happy.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
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Representative Baker is an embarrassment. He is wrong on the issue of enforceability, ... His response to our settlement is explained by his failure to grasp the issues at hand and his failure to do anything to protect small investors.
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
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I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.