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Paul Graham Quotes

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: english
Birth: November 13, 1964

Topics

Good Business Ideas Suits Dressing

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

King Me Say Tennis Old Years

I am a novelist through and through.

I Am Through Am Novelist

I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

Good Food Fake Looks New Nice

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Work Love Best Child World Duty

I'm demanding and critical about myself. It's something my parents passed on to me.

Myself Parents Me Something Critical

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Creativity Together World Flame New

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.

Love People Think Move On Way Never

I'm not just another bimbo.

Christina Aguilera

Just Bimbo Another

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mistakes Relax Right Same Years

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Apollonia Kotero

Over Overlooked Rather Than Looked

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

Armistead Maupin

Age Freedom Me You I Can Understand

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