Alan Patricof Quotes
As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
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As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.
