Georges Doriot Quotes
Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
Quotes to Explore
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.
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I like to travel by myself.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Don't flounder in the preambles of the past Wounded with regrets; don't let autumnal Nostalgia blind you to the sounds and scents Of the present's Spring; you're a native of The pellucid moment, make it infinite beyond The curving snake of passing time and space. Learn to die in the infinitely elusive moment.
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It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
