Joe Lonsdale Quotes
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
