Bill Maris Quotes

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.

Bill Maris

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I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

Joe Lieberman

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I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.

Jeremy Grantham

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Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

Maurizio Cattelan

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If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

Tracy Morgan

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I'm kind of fat.

Tom Douglas

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I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.

Robert Boswell

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My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called 'And Tango Makes Three,' about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg 'til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face.

Miriam Shor

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When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

Joyce Meyer

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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

Christopher Walken

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I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

Clint Howard

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I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

Antoine Predock

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