"All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in."

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Michael Moritz

#Mistake Quotes #Smart Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.”
“People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.”
“In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.”

Source : "Fictional character: Valentino Garavani". "The Last Emperor", 2008.
“God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.”
“You know it's hard for me to, like, act the way I've been acting. And, like, being, like, nice to everyone. And I think I deserve to be acknowledged for that.”

Source : "'Big Brother': Aaryn Thinks She Deserves Kudos For Playing Nice (VIDEO)" by Jason Hughes, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.
“You just have to love yourself and live and die with the passion of the music. I walk around happy as hell because I create music for a living. I can touch the world with my heart and my passion. Music has dominated life well before I was ever born.”
“Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.”

Source : William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.137

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