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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I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
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I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.
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You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
