Jeremy Allaire Quotes
The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.
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We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.
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In my workshops for young adults, the most important thing I emphasize is that anything posted online, no matter how private they think it is, is permanent.
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For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.
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The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.
