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Paul Allen Quotes

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Looking Back Wrong Go Always

Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

Today Effort Solution Accept Oil

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

Politics Government Selling High Low

I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for 'Letterman' or '70s-era Carson.

Sports Job Growing Up Writing Dream

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

Love Voice Writer His Really I Love

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

Work Marriage Children People Speak

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Ryan Bethencourt

Technology World Biology Understand

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going to be scandalized. I'm not going to talk about anybody like a dog. I'm going to say the positiveness of my life, and talk about those who have contributed to the way I've been going, and that's that.'

Life Dog Me Book My Life Look

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Politics Nothing Understood Word

I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it's disappointing that I can't perform for my American fans... all because I'm not 'family friendly' enough.

Family Stars American Enough Ice

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Freedom Peace Support People World

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

Nature Go Island Glamorous Grounded

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

Hard Ten I Came Many Very States

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