Fred Wilson Quotes

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Fred Wilson

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YouSeeLittleThingsDifferently

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

Jenifer Lewis

BeautyMemoriesRememberBarberAny

The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

Anant Agarwal

LearningBelieveThinkYouTide

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

Maurice Sendak

AnimalsCriminalViolent

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

Angelina Jolie

MeMomYoungActorAlwaysGoing

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

Stephanie Coontz

ChangeYourselfYouConvinceBother

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

Sloan Wilson

LoveEnoughYouWriteRealReason

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

MyselfDaySleepBreakfastMeWeek

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.

Ronald Kessler

HimSafeRussiaFBILeakStarted

'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying.

Michaela Coel

BeautifulSleepI AmWritingChicken

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Louise Slaughter

I AmClothingDisturbedOurPublic

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Julia Child

TodayGreatWomanWarPeopleWorld

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

Jason Calacanis

SexyOutComingValleyLikeStuff

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