John Collison Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.
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There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
