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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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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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 think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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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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Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.
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We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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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.
