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 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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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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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?
