Paul Allen Quotes

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

Paul Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureBusinessFreeCompanyRight

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleDrawingFirstFirst Impression

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

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The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

Maureen O'Hara

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Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

Steven Pressfield

CreativeMedicalPeopleSucceedYou

I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful.

Tracy Chapman

BeautifulMeThinkPlayTryUkulele

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.

Robert Dallek

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There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.

Roy Bennett

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One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.

Mary Pilon

SnowHealthSportsGreatSleepBeer

I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.

Michael Owen

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Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

Mitch Kapor

ChangeYouOverEveryoneStepsTake

A generation of men really built the NFL and gave guys like me a shot, and a lot of these guys are left out in the cold by the league and forgotten.

Chris Borland

MenMeColdGenerationOutLeft

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

Peter Capaldi

ThinkActingNeverSameDifferent

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