Joe Lonsdale Quotes
A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
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We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.
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We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.
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It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.
