Max Levchin Quotes
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I wanted to be a world champion.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
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I guess I'm just fiercely independent.
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Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
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Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.