Joe Lonsdale Quotes
There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to a line of credit. Financial institutions in developing economies are broken and inefficient, and hard-working people have not been given the chance to establish a credit history.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers 'being at' a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it 'sounded like.' Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.
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Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.
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There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to a line of credit. Financial institutions in developing economies are broken and inefficient, and hard-working people have not been given the chance to establish a credit history.
