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I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.


Rob Dyrdek

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ROB WALTON Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always somet...
ROB ZOMBIE If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of ...
ROB MANUEL One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We'...
ROB SHEFFIELD Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ba...
ROB SHEFFIELD 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dall...
ROB SHEFFIELD 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, s...
ROB SHEFFIELD Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: wr...
ROB THOMAS It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucin...
ROB SHEFFIELD I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Daz...
ROB THOMAS Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the worl...
ROB WALTON One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything...
ROB MANUEL Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says ...
ROB ZOMBIE On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side...
ROB THOMAS God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex...
ROB SHEFFIELD You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie ...
ROB SHEFFIELD The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist discon...
ROB LOWE The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto oth...
ROB REINER A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's ve...
ROB SCHNEIDER I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr a...
ROB THOMAS Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the fun...
ROB SHEFFIELD The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, h...
ROB LOWE The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, was...
ROB LOWE I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
ROB ZOMBIE The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
ROB LOWE Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little g...
ROB GLASER I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt any...
ROB ZOMBIE You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be neg...
ROB PORTMAN There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When...
ROB MANUEL The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in th...
ROB SHEFFIELD I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see...
ROB MARIANO More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is jus...
ROB MANUEL I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have...
ROB KARDASHIAN