John Collison Quotes
Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.
