Jon Oringer Quotes
Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.
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Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
