Patrick M. Byrne Quotes
There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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There is a world elsewhere.
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I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!
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न कृतार्थानां मारणाभयम्
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
