Daniel Lyons Quotes
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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The world itself is so full of changes - of negotiations, changes of position, seeing things one way, then another, gauging responses, status changes that can happen in an instant.
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All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.
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Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
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There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
