Joe Lonsdale Quotes
Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
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Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!
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I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
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We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.
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I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.
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Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.
