John Collison Quotes
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.
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The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I'm always worried about my money for some reason.
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Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.
