Joe Lonsdale Quotes
Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.
Quotes to Explore
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
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I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.
