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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts
  • Mixed

• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Family
  • New
  • Broadway

• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Stop
  • Always
  • Look

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Speak
  • Order
  • Number

• 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.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Beginning
  • Unique

• The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Heard

• I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Going

• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Works
  • Move
  • Surrender

• 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.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Internet
  • Run
  • Inside

• 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.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Power
  • Rest

• This is the game. We win some, we lose some but I will never shy away from a challenge.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Game
  • Challenge

• The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Great
  • Together
  • True

• My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • People
  • Company
  • East West

• It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.

  

  Angus Deaton

• Netflix has already gone mainstream. Not mainstream but they’ve gone snob. They have an angry housewife who’s making all the selections.

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • Angry

• I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Experience

• There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.

  

  Daniel Lyons