Glenn Kelman Quotes

I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job at a start-up. I was one of the first employees there, and I did everything for them, and it was so much fun.

Glenn Kelman

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Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

Tony Judt

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I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

Ritika Singh

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I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

Monica Keena

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You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Doug Harvey

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When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Brian Eno

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That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

Alice Cooper

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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.

Philipp Meyer

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I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I find, as I'm getting older and I'm more aware of time, I can actually write all day.

Peter Carey

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Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Pauline Kael

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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Norman MacCaig

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Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Maria Semple

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My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

Killer Mike

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