T. J. Rodgers Quotes
Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I am a just man.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
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It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
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My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise.
