Joe Jamail Quotes
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.
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Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet's. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S.
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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
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The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.
