Nick Hanauer Quotes

I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Nick Hanauer

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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Jackson

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I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

Jennifer Aniston

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There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

Amy Chua

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'Lockup,' inside America's supersize prisons on MSNBC, is one of my favorite shows. I get a lot of my inspiration for Blair Waldorf from that show.

Stephanie Savage

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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Robertson Davies

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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Jon Ronson

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Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

Donald Trump

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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

Chico Buarque

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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Behan

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Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Astro Teller

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Beyond just the respect that you want to have, people just miss out on being in the moment when they have a screen in front of their face. I just don't know to tell people. I feel it's like, you know, 'Turn off your phone and go to the theater.'

Phillipa Soo

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