Joe Lonsdale Quotes
The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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One has to always do better work than their previous film. It is essential to do something new every time.
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
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The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.
