Jaan Tallinn Quotes
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
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Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
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Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
