Max Levchin Quotes
You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters.
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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
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In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
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Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.
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I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
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You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
