Joe Lonsdale Quotes
The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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We'd like very much to see a reduction in the interdependence of beer and football.
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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
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I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.
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Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.
