Joe Lonsdale Quotes
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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My home has always been show business.
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.
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All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.
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Some Saian mountaineerStruts today with my shield.I threw it down by a bush and ranWhen the fighting got hot.Life seemed somehow more precious.It was a beautiful shield.I know where I can buy anotherExactly like it, just as round.
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Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.
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Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
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Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.
