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.
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'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.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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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.
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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.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.
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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.
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The stories on 'The Cosby Show' transcend time.
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I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
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Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.
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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
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For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.
