Alec Berg Quotes

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.

Alec Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

Jodie Foster

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I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.

Joakim Noah

New YorkMeToughFeelPlayStreet

I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.

Jessica St. Clair

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Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

Jeff Goodell

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You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

Michael Gerber

LifeSuccessYourselfFishYouFind

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Sonia Braga

Getting OlderPlayMothersOlder

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

Tom Wilkinson

PeopleBraveHelpYouKnowWill

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

Tom Douglas

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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

Roscoe Mitchell

MusicPracticeLearnYouCreateWay

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

EducationArtMoneyThoughtCountry

You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money, then you go to the Cannes Film Festival, and they got some poster of you, 40 ft. high, in the worst movie in the world.

Michael Madsen

MoneyWorldYouGoWorstHigh

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.

Miranda July

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