Steve Jurvetson Quotes

I've actually come to respect the most irritatingly challenging people I've worked with as really valuable in improving group decision-making and what to do and what to invest in.

Steve Jurvetson

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RespectPeopleGroupDecision-Making

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

Jo Brand

MenComedyYouLookQuizBoard

Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland - zero, when last I checked - we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Michael Dirda

SpringHouseSometimesSilverNeed

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

Steve Carell

ThinkYouSituationKnowPersonal

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Stephen Sondheim

GoodMusicYourselfYouBecomeMore

I'm never quite as excited as people think because with my voice, when I shout, I squeak.

Sid Waddell

PeopleVoiceThinkNeverExcited

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.

Tommy Lee

DrummerTourNeedsHeHisSays

Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.

Roma Downey

GirlRedCityGunBattleHood

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Martin O'Malley

SchoolThinkInitiativeMayorOur

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffer

ConfidenceMorningBedOutAct

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

Jared Polis

ParentsDinnerTraditionTableUp

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

Jose Maria Aznar

DoneWestIsraelDamageHarm

Europe can't rely on a Trump-led U.S. for its defence. But, at the same time, it should recognise that the cold war is over - however unwilling to acknowledge it America's industrial-military complex may be.

Joseph Stiglitz

TimeWarColdAmericaOverEurope

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