Mamie Van Doren Quotes

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

Mamie Van Doren

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Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.

Joe Lonsdale

TechnologyBestTalentEngineering

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

Jennifer Lawrence

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You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

Andrew Whitworth

PeopleMeListeningLearnAttention

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

Robert Irvine

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We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Jeffrey Sachs

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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean de La Fontaine

SoulManAnythingFiresMadeHis

Paid leave is worth every penny.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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I like to learn from everyone I perform with. I have learnt a lot from Paritosh Tripathi, my co-anchor on 'Super Dancer,' and also my good friend Ravi Dubey.

Rithvik Dhanjani

GoodFriendLearnEveryoneLike

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.

Joseph Pulitzer

ImaginationPeopleSympathyAmerican

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

Jon Ronson

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I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Claude Chabrol

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I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.

Bryan Greenberg

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