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Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
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Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.
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VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.
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Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
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Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
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Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
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Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
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Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
Source: Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31] -
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
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Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
Source: A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
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