Joe Lonsdale Quotes
I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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People approach you for the work they have seen you do. I don't think people see me as a lover boy dancing around, so I haven't received a role of that kind. I'm going to do roles that appeal to me.
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I'm recognized, let me put it that way.
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If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.
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We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.
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I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.
