John Collison Quotes

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

John Collison

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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

• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Want
  • Irony
  • Mustache

• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Intelligent
  • Become
  • Far

• 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!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Respect

• 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

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• 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

• The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Soul

• I'm going for that Mark Wahlberg look. Strong and confident.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Strong

• I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Country
  • Power
  • Political

• Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Movie
  • Weekend

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

  

  John Collison