Al Barry Quotes
Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days
Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!
Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof
Paloma you cry out, you beg for connection The dreams you seek are straight ahead in every direction
With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing...
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that’s when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.
It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.
The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
The team takes on the identity of its top payers... I don't want to take anything away from the Capitals offensively.
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
