Jon Oringer Quotes
If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.
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I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.
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I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
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Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.
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If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.
