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Joe Lonsdale

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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.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Business
  • Society

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• 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!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Book
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Want
  • Getting Older

• There are so many people I wish I could have met:

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Shows

• 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!

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Pressure

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Question
  • Better

• People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Live
  • You
  • Die

• Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Helping
  • Selling

• I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Fool

• Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Mountain

• Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Mindset

• But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.

  

  Adam Smith

• I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Heart

• While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

  

  Lewis Hine
  • May

• Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Fitness

• Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• When my good friend Jeff Sessions endorsed Donald Trump, that was good enough for me.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Trump

• We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'

  

  Carl Honore
  • Relationship
  • Baby
  • Poverty

• A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.

  

  Joe Lonsdale