"I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me."

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Source : "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998.

Robert Metcalfe

#Typical Quotes #Screwed Up Quotes

“The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.”
“I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.”

Source : Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”
“By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.”
“Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 10, 2002.
“The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.”
“Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.”
“It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.”
“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense â€” and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”

Source : "Negroes with Guns". Book by Robert Franklin Williams, 1998.

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