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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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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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 was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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Young people of every continent, do not be afraid to be the saints of the new millennium! Be contemplative, love prayer; be coherent with your faith and generous in the service of your brothers and sisters, be active members of the Church and builders of peace.
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
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Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?
