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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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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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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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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I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
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Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit, cause they think that I'm a motherfucking Beastie Boy.
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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
