John Collison Quotes

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

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• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Moral

• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Intelligent
  • Become
  • Far

• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Words
  • Funny

• Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Character
  • Like
  • Books

• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Taken
  • Voice
  • See

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Story

• There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.

  

  Beck
  • Lyrics
  • Meaningful

• You used to dealing with basic bitches,Basic shit all the time.I'm a new classic, upgrade your statusFrom a standby to a frequent flyer.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time

• Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Friends
  • Together
  • College

• AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • People
  • Important
  • Death

• For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Book
  • Built
  • Mammoth Bones

• Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Theology

• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Desire
  • Evil
  • Gossip

• With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

  

  Islom Karimov
  • Spring
  • Hopes
  • Aspirations

• We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Psychological

• For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

  

  John Collison