Max Levchin Quotes
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
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I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
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I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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I want to do anything where people feel I can help make their franchise better and make a contribution.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
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That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.
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I never wear suits.
