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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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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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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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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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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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.
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To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it's going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let's do it that way.
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I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.
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I work 110-hour weeks.
