David Boies Quotes

Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.

David Boies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 11, 1941

Topics

WorkFamilyPeoplePrioritiesTwo

I'm ready to create.

John Galliano

ReadyCreate

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

LiveGreatSkiingSmallYouCountry

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

Tony Kushner

FriendDaySchoolPeopleAngelSick

We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.

Robert Friedland

PowerHistoryMoneyWorldGeneration

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

Roy Keane

I AmEnoughWorthSettleNaiveThan

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

Diane von Furstenberg

I AmPeoplePressureJudgeChoose

The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can't. It's kind of like an outlet.

Doug Baldwin

LifeFootballControlGameYouPlay

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Arundhati Roy

AngryLoseRobotsAbilityEmotional

I am very ambitious.

Shelly Burch

I AmAmbitiousVeryAm

In my view, product/market fit is the most important thing to get right as a startup entrepreneur. There's a variety of ways to do it, but without solving some pain point that the customer gets so excited about they tell their friends, it's really hard in the modern age to get any liftoff.

Scott Cook

AgePainViewFriendsCustomerHard

When listening to politicians, distinguish certain words. Look out for the expansive use of 'terrorism' and 'extremism.' Be alive to the fatal notions of 'exception' and 'emergency.' Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

Timothy D. Snyder

WordsAngryListeningLookAlive

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

Timothy Morton

TimeSpaceIdeasMapOrderWell

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