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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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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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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The Internet is crazy, and I love it!
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
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Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
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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.
