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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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You never get every job you want.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
