Joe Lonsdale Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.
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Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
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We go to Montana every year - that's where my husband is from - Flathead Lake, Montana, which is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to in my life. It's amazing that his entire family lives there. There's waterskiing, jet skiing, and kayaking, and it's just really fun.
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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
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When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.
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I work 110-hour weeks.
