Joe Lonsdale Quotes
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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There are so many people I wish I could have met:
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.
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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
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It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too far out on a limb with no way to return.
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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
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Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.
