John Collison Quotes
People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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I'm a real optimist.
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I like to travel by myself.
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I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.
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It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.
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I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
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Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
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People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.
