Oliver Tree (Oliver Tree Nickell) Quotes
Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
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Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?
