Joe Lonsdale Quotes
A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
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Win one for the Gipper.
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I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
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A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.
