John Collison Quotes
We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.
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In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.
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Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.
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We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.
