Alexa Von Tobel Quotes
When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
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The world is always in movement.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I don't do negative things.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.
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There's always time to launch your dreams
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When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
