John Collison Quotes
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.
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I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.
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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.
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There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.
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The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
