Brad Garlinghouse Quotes
If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
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I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.
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My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.
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The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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I'm one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authenticity of the camera and seeing things on a screen.
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
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The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street.
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My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.
