Steve Erickson Quotes

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

Steve Erickson

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FamilyWifeTelevisionNowSheSit

Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.

John Battelle

CommunityWinFreeSpeechElection

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

SpringTasteBritishOnlyVisiting

Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.

Matt Haig

ThinkingEndYouWantFallingUp

It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.

Angela Ahrendts

LuxuryGucciBornCompanyLeather

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Stevie Jackson

LearnFastBandWellRecordsLike

If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, 'I hate it. I am not going to use this,' that's it for us. We won't get evaluated.

Stewart Butterfield

HateI AmEngineerUsGoingGet

Sometimes you will get feedback that is contrary to your vision. You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first.

Stewart Butterfield

VisionPeopleDriveDirectionYou

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

Martin Parr

PeopleLookFindPhotographIssues

My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

Michael Lee-Chin

WealthGrowingNowIndividualLiquid

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Joshua Oppenheimer

CommunityStruggleHelpDictatorship

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Donna Tartt

FriendBookStoryLanguageLandscape

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

Brett Favre

GoodAdversityYouKnowSometimes

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