John Collison Quotes
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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It's something I am confident about. It gives me an adrenaline rush - who wouldn't want want to wear beautiful clothes and jewellery and look wonderful - it's a dream job for many.
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My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.
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I am a very complicated person.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.
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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
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If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
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It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an 'e.' Auli'i Cravalho.
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Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
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I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.
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If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.
