Fred Ehrsam Quotes
Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How core protocol work is best funded beyond the initial Ethereum Foundation endowment is an open question, but likely further out.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.
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'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
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Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How core protocol work is best funded beyond the initial Ethereum Foundation endowment is an open question, but likely further out.
