Ed Seykota Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
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If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
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You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that.
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I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
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The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'
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I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.
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A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money
