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'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
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Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
