John Collison Quotes
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
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I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
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