Steve Jurvetson Quotes

Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

Steve Jurvetson

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SonTravelBuildingDesertBlack

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

Jimmy Smits

YouArtistCelebrityWholeDifferent

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

John Catsimatidis

WordsPeopleMeYouMentorNobody

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

Robert Rodriguez

DayDoneSleepingHalfGetSpend

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Maya Angelou

WorkGoodNew YorkMeBookLanguage

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

Robert Rodriguez

PeopleCreateWantHollywoodEmpower

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

John Pearson

LifeDeathWorldDieNothingBirth

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Luke Bryan

CharacterLuckWindEndBetterKind

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Jay Kay

PeopleEconomyHowSupposedFill

On Conte's first day, I told him that I wanted to join Atletico, and he was upset with me and didn't even look at me. Luckily, I started to score goals.

Diego Costa

GoalsDayMeLookUpsetFirst

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Brian Skerry

SeaWaterStartDeepPerfectSharks

Some amount of support from government and regulator is required when you are looking at resolving systemic issues.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

GovernmentSupportLookingYouSome

You want to do what you love, but stuff overshadows it, so it makes it a little harder for people to take me seriously.

Selena Gomez

LoveDo What You LovePeopleMeYou

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