Arthur Rock Quotes
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Time was God's first creation.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
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You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
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Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
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A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.
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You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
