Joe Lonsdale Quotes
Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.
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It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
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I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
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I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.
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I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.
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I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.
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Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.
