Paul Graham Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
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We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.
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What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?
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I had some downtime with my career and... I got complacent.
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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
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My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.
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In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
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Tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.
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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
