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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You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.
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I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.
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The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
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Come on, I'm a television star. Nobody on television is curing cancer. I've had a great ride, and I'm very honored to have been in this business. I'm happy if I managed to affect people in a positive way.
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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
