Daniel Lyons Quotes
I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want. Whatever you like. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
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You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
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I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
