Alec Berg Quotes
I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
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In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
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You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.
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I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
