Ed Gordon Quotes
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
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When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.
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I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.
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I look at melody as rhythm.
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The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.
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At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.
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One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.
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I feel like, I mean, there's no new wheel, you know. A newsmagazine is what it is.
