Alec Berg Quotes
I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
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Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
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Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
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Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.
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I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.
