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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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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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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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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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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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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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
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I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.
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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
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The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
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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.
