Jon Oringer Quotes
I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an opportunity to come from it, then I feel like that's a choice.
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How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.
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He must not believe, because he would be making the mistake of his life, that he can mess the international community about yet again.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.
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I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.
