Neil Blumenthal Quotes

A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.

Neil Blumenthal

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I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

John Henry Newman

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Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

Siouxsie Sioux

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As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

Jonathan Ive

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They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

Derek Jacobi

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It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

Douglas Hodge

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I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

Donatella Versace

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I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

Christopher Walken

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Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.

Art Alexakis

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You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

Willie Robertson

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