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Paul Allen Quotes

I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world's hardest problems.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018

Topics

Hope Challenge Optimism World Choose

During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.

Jessica Seinfeld

Work Family Time School Parents

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Revolution Enlightenment Born Fires

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

Women Politics You Want Nervous

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Challenge Play Audience Animation

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

Work Simple Song Down Messed Up Try

One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.

Time Face You Street Guy Different

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Moment Team Train Athlete Never

I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.

Friend Think Why Always Awake Much

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.

Creative Poetry Parents People You

I started coaching in the Interregionale league in Catanzaro. There were pitches with no grass; at times, we had no water, no training equipment. I had to do it all myself.

Claudio Ranieri

Water Myself Training Coaching Grass

Cute accessories always help bring out your outfit and pull it all together.

Cute Together Help Outfit Out Bring

Consumers need more insight into the goods and services they purchase. Businesses need to produce those goods and services more sustainably.

Arancha Gonzalez

Insight More Need Consumers Those

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